Sunday, September 13, 2009

Woman sues university cos she can't get a job

Only in the US. Associated Press article. Imagine if this happened in Cambodia.

The US is well-known to be a litigious society, with Americans suing for even the minutest thing.
"Americans collectively spend twice as much on civil litigation than they spend on new automobiles – and more than any other industrialised country. As a fraction of GDP, litigation expenditures in the United States are three times greater than those in the UK; 3.3 tort suits are filed in the United States for each 1,000 inhabitants compared with only 1.2 per 1,000 in England."
FromTHE ‘LITIGIOUS SOCIETY’: WHY AMERICANS SPEND MORE ON LAWSUITS THAN BRITS. More:
"The key difference is that under the British and continental European systems, the loser in a suit has to pay a substantial portion of the winner’s legal fees, while under the American system, each party pays their own legal fees.

The ‘all pay’ nature of the American system explains why the United States has been dubbed the ‘litigious society’. While the American system results in lower legal expenditures on a per trial basis, the incentives to go to trial are much higher under the American system than under the British and continental European systems."

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