eBay Justice - Stupidity at work

[Martin4x4]

A stupid Politician suggested that the Justice system should be more like ebay

Do they mean a hot bed of fraudsters, scamming and designed to profit from corruption.

Edited by Martin4x4 on Saturday 21st February 11:05

[chr15b]

Nah, if that's what He meant he'd have said more like politicians surely?

[FredSmith64]

Personally I agree, a number of agencies use online submissions of evidence and a mediator to come to an agreement which avoids the courts.

This avoids overuse of time, money and the courts workload.

An example would be the deposit protection schemes, I have used one in the past when an unfair landlord took my entire deposit and said they "lost" the itemised bill. The deposit agency quite rightly sided with me and I was given the entire deposit back. It was still a long process but only cost me a few pounds (which was required by law as I had to have a solicitor witness me signing a letter).

Seems a good way to resolve disputes with a mediator, think of all those people who argue about their garden boundary and the money the spend.

[surveyor]

Agreed.

Some disputes are open to a common sense approach. They could either fund the courts to this or create a whole new system

To me a simple no hassle smaller claims court would make sense.....

[Sheepshanks]

Reminds me of this I saw the other day: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/legal-s...

[Mr Pointy]

ebay justice? You mean an arrangement whereby you report cases of blatant shill bidding & they do nothing about it? But hey, never mind they made a tidy sum out of the listing, final value & Paypal fees so that's ok.

[carinaman]

Discussed on this programme along with Mini Cheddars:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052j57j

[carinaman]

I've just chanced upon this:

https://twitter.com/znottingham

[Sheepshanks]

I wonder if this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31653760 is the start of it?

[nyxster]

Last minute sniper bid by the prosecution turns a 10 month suspended sentence into 25 to life.

[bearman68]

nyxster said:

Last minute sniper bid by the prosecution turns a 10 month suspended sentence into 25 to life.