{"id":100,"date":"2005-03-10T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2005-03-10T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T14:08:38","slug":"the-italian-legal-system-is-terminally-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"The italian legal system is terminally stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/depts\/classics\/documents\/Cic.html\">Cicero<\/a> would be impressed. OK, maybe the post title is a little OTT but I&#8217;ve posted in the past about the many weird and whacky rulings of Italian judges, most particularly relating to rape and sexual harassment. Well I picked <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/03\/08\/italy.court.reut\/index.html\">this<\/a> up from Reuters recently and it&#8217;s the mind-alterning icing on the italian legal hash cake. It transpires that a man who wishes to collect a pre-agreed payout of around 450,000 Euros from his insurance company has been told to come back in 14 months to determine the result of his case. The catch? He has <b>6 months to live and wants to use the money to ease his final days.<\/b>. If this wasn&#8217;t bad enough it turns out that his claim goes back over a decade<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>when he was left paralyzed by a motorcycle accident. Confined to a wheelchair, he subsequently developed a lethal infection of the spine&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this was a freak incident of italian legal woe then it would be more tolerable. However, in Italy it takes on average 3,041 days to obtain a definitive sentence in a civil case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if Cicero would be impressed. OK, maybe the post title is a little OTT but I&#8217;ve posted in the past about the many weird and whacky rulings of Italian judges, most particularly relating to rape and sexual harassment. Well I picked this up from Reuters recently and it&#8217;s the mind-alterning icing on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}