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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Would you rather we spend another 10 million on lawyers so that the courts could tell us we owe him 20 million? Hmm? Would you now?
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If that happened, Khadr might be the first plaintiff to ever get the entirety of their particulars of claim. As I stated before, the particulars usually represent the best case scenario, which almost never occurs. It's probably equally as likely that Khadr would have ended up with zero, hence the compromise right in the middle.
Also, legal bills are expensive but not 10 million dollars expensive. Even senior government lawyers only earn about $200k/year.
The issue was more to do with dragging things out further and the optics/press involved in that.