You and your client are trying to make a profit out of me
Our client’s claim is a legitimate claim for damages in order to be compensated for the losses which arose directly as a consequence of your wrongdoing. Such costs include not only the value of the goods taken or damaged, but the cost of investigating and apprehending an individual, dealing with paperwork and administration and recording and reporting the incident. In a case of staff theft, there are additional internal costs such as more prolonged and specific investigation costs, Human Resources’ and Management time in dealing with the disciplinary proceedings.
Courts will only order compensation which is adequate to compensate those losses. It is unlawful to recover in excess of our client’s losses and indeed a Court would not order payment of such losses.
There is therefore no question that our clients make any profit from civil recovery claims. In reality many claims are compromised and our clients do not recover the true extent of their losses in many cases.
Further, for low value claims, our clients do not seek full compensation, but seek a reduced amount in order to remain proportionate in their claims. The remaining losses are borne by our clients.