Court Costs - a win for truth and integrity over malice.
The Desert Rat suspects that Julian Grill and his wife Lesley are not about to travel to the south of France to spend the $19 149 costs that were awarded to them for legal fees and court costs in yesterday's acquittal.
The Desert Rat has the sad duty to inform punters that all this gratefully received money will disappear into the black hole of legal fees. Even though this was Silverstone's and Roberts-Smith first group of charges against Julian Grill - and their first embarrassing failure, Grill's legal fees are known to be well over $300 000 already and mounting.
This legal bill has accumulated over the three year that Silverstone has been desperately trying to justify the estimated $50 million his outfit the CCC has wasted trying to find some evidence of corruption against Julian Grill.
There is a formula that magistrates use to calculate costs and it not meant to cover all costs by the successful defendant. In this case it will cover about 5% of Grill's costs to date.
The Desert Rat thinks that Mike Silverstone would be less reckless if he was spending or wasting his own money on these nasty actions - instead of frivolously spending taxpayers funds.
If Silverstone was to be sued by his victims, Silverstone's costs would unfortunately be paid for by the State and taxpayers. We all lose.
All Brigadier Silverstone of the Children Overboard infamy can only lose, is he remaining credibility. Some would argue that is little for him to lose.
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