It establishes that when a civil wrong is done to an individual, someone has to pay.

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It's a civil wrong.

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They can still easily find themselves on the wrong side of a whopping civil or criminal penalty.

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Or if you get on the wrong side of the law or a civil suit, it may be the po-po or an opposing lawyer who come digging through your communications.

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He urged a gathering of civil servants to stop blaming apartheid for everything that was still going wrong in South Africa.

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Firstly, because the judge in Bangladesh was prepared to go public and emphasise the "civil wrong" which had been done against her client, and secondly, because a British High Court order served under the new Forced Marriage Act was mentioned at the Dhaka hearing.

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That does not necessarily make them wrong: civil disobedience, against British rule in India, or against segregation in America, has a long, honourable history.

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