Sentences with phrase «undermine compensation awards»

The controversial costs create «perverse incentives» for defendants to plead guilty; are a «grossly disproportionate» punishment for many offences; leave no discretion for judges or magistrates to vary the charge and undermine compensation awards to victims, according to the MPs.

Not exact matches

In the world before the Supreme Court's recent Philip Morris decision, the risk of giving the plaintiff — who might only be one of many victims of the defendant's conduct — the entire punitive damages award was that it would more likely undermine the state's in - terest in ensuring a fair distribution of both compensatory and retributive damages for oth - ers, since a crippling retributive damages award might impair the availability of adequate compensation funds (or punitive damages) for future claimants.