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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Or he might not have received anything, when the supreme court ruled they basically also ruled that it wasn't up to the Supreme Court to decide whether compensation was due of not, the decision of compensation was up to the government.
The only thing the supreme court stated was that they felt that Khadr's human rights were violated.
If the government had been taken to court by Khadr, they probably would have basically gone back to the Supreme Court decision that said Compensation was up to the Government.
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The case likely would have went to a human rights tribunal who would have made a decision on settlement. The government could have challenged that decision in the Supreme Court. Given that the Supreme Court had already ruled in his favour on the charge that his rights were violated it is doubtful they would not have upheld the human rights commission's decision on settlement.
There is no chance the government wasn't going to have to pay Khadr a settlement.