by Allan Norman

Many civil court cases boil down to arguments over money. Even those with origins in arguments about injury to person or reputation end up with arguments about the financial value of the harm. When a case is genuinely about - for example - the welfare of a child, we can feel warm and fuzzy. But how acceptable is it, in other contexts, to be arguing about money? It happens all the time, and for a variety of reasons. It happens because we believe someone else should be footing the bill, or no-one should be footing the bill. What exactly is the law on avoiding responsibility?

There have been several recent social care cases to point.

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