back to article ZX Spectrum reboot firm gets £52k court costs order quashed

The £52,000 costs order granted against troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd has been set aside by the Senior Courts Costs Office, a branch of the High Court, as the wrangle between RCL and two former directors rumbles on. Sitting in a sweltering sixth-floor courtroom on June 15 in the Thomas More building, …

  1. The Nazz

    The best justice in the world?

    I have heard it said that British Justice is the best in the world. If that is so, YMMV, then god help the rest of the world.

    A rhetorical question, who the hell benefits from such an inefficient and unwieldy , time consuming process.? Really, you got the same answer as i did?

    1. ThomH

      Re: The best justice in the world?

      Who benefits from decisions being open to appeal, and being made only after substantially more enquiry than asking a stranger what they think after reading a few hundred words? Almost everybody. The few cases that end up being ridiculous don't outweigh the hundreds of thousands that quietly and rationally reach an unglamorous conclusion. Especially since the Woolf reforms a couple of decades ago, which actively reward reasonable behaviour.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    RANDOMIZE USR 0

    This is getting as exciting as the wait for the original Spectrum!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Ya pays ya money

    Ya takes ya chances...

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  5. askduds

    This case is the best thing that's happened to them. Constantly making whining posts about it on Facebook has got them out of actually delivering what their customers paid for.

  6. RedCardinal

    hahahahha...crowdfunding....suckers....:P

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