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TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months agoYes they do have to fund their defense to begin with, however there has to be some balance struck. Until the court proceedings are concluded it isn’t known which side is in the right.
I think most countries’ public funding for legal representation is limited to criminal matters, and even then you have to qualify (eg have a very low income or be unemployed). With civil matters, it’s up to you to find a lawyer you can afford, or one who will take it on pro bono.
If the defendent is obviously in the right, then it should be more likely that they can find a lawyer who will work pro bono.
density@kbin.social 8 months ago
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TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
One is before the trial happens, one is after the trial happens.
Before the trial happens, it could really go either way, even if the defendant is obviously in the right - there could be some procedural slip up that causes them to lose anyway.
After the trial is completed, if it was obviously in the defendant’s favour, then it will be more likely that the judge will award costs such that the plaintiff pays the defendant’s.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can keep pressing on “Show context” to load more replies, up until the top level one.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah I know, however when you reply to someone from a notification you just want to reply.
Also, when you move up the context on a Lemmy thread you see each comment and all its other comments. If the comment chain you’re replying on isn’t the top thread, then you get cluttered up with all the others. On reddit, context meant you only saw the comments that directly lead to the comment you were deriving context from. Furthermore, context was derived from the comment URL with a
?context=3suffix, so you could easily specify how far up the chain you wanted to go.Lemmy does context differently, but I prefer reddit’s method.