V-Flyer

See here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l?ITO=1490

Hmmm interesting..... it won't be comfortable for the lady who is going to continue working there afterwards!

And not much sympathy for their cause from the people who have commented on that article so far.

Typical of the Daily Mail to introduce a slightly salacious twist:
"Most of their customers - who were always clothed - were males who required heavier hand and finger pressure involving particular strain on the thumbs."

Tricky - depends what contract they signed with VA...

Surely, if you were self employed in that career, you'd be working just as hard.

My antena are telling me that it's simply got to do with the fact they have an empoyer they can litigate against that's driving this...

Or, maybe there is more to the story...

No-win-no-fee deal.

Push with high media use..

VS bow and settle "out of court" to make issue dissappear..

Or flipside, is the coverage of the "services" available to VS pax a nice bit of reverse marketing...?? ryanair'esque

Once again some less than sympathetic comments from the DM readers (though I agree with some like the one commenting on the size of the bag she is carryng in the picture) and lo and behold someone also manages to complain about the time taken to get a refund !

I see that VS have admitted liability but are disputing the level of the payout claimed.

The report says that VS reduced the number of massages to 2 per hour which will help their case.

BUT where is the professional responsibilty of the women to themselves? They should have refused any requests to go 'harder'.

Lets get this straight...VA have already admitted liability. That is what I read in a newspaper that is more reputable than that rag.

The question is how much compensation these ladies are going to get.

Interesting enough piece in the Telegraph today. More interesting still is whether or not we know any of these 'overweight executives' they speak of...

and here too.

Ah yes, so it is. Sorry, not on here often enough nowadays. Look on the bright side: at least my link was to the Telegraph...

Merged to avoid confusion.

No win no fee is a horrid phrase that is coined by the media. The actual term is a Conditional Fee Arrangement. Solicitor receives a basic rate plus a success fee. If you are unsuccessful you do not pay your solicitors costs but you do pay the other sides costs. So it is not litigation for free.

The point in these cases is that you get to a point, in particular in PI cases, where the costs are extremely high and it is not always clear exactly which way the Court will go (remember that VS may only have admitted liability on one tiny element). It is always easy to find an "expert" who diagrees with another "expert".

Take into the fact that VS will have instructed a large city based practice (probably not Harbottle and Lewis, who do the vast majority of their work, but more likely a specialist such as Kennedys or BLM) who will charge top whack and there is always the fear for the employee that they will have to meet the other sides whopping legal costs (to be court assessed though).

Hence what may happen is that the issue will settle out of Court. Even then the employer will still be worrying about costs and will probably end up settling for a lot less as they dont wish to continue racking up costs. On settling whilst not being liable for the other sides costs you will be liable for your own costs.

At the end of the day, as in all litigation, it really is only for the rich who can waste money at it. My profession, rightly or wrongly, are the only ones who win.

Darren Wheeler wrote:Merged to avoid confusion.

Top merging Mr Wheeler sir!

mdvipond wrote:

Darren Wheeler wrote:Merged to avoid confusion.

Top merging Mr Wheeler sir!

I hope you don't get RSI due to merging.

BBC London News this evening reported that the High Court agreed to £300,000 payout. Nothing on the Website yet though

The Reporter still referred to "First Class" passengers ):

buns

Here we are from the BBC

Evans got £ 231k (wanted £ 327) and Hindmarch £ 69k (wanted £ 235k)

Turns out Evans now works for VS cargo division. Would be interesitng to be in that office tomorrow !