"I want to pay tribute to the professionalism which he has shown throughout our consideration of this, and indeed for the valued service he has given to SPA and policing over what has been a period of unprecedented change". The SPA said it is not possible "at this stage" to calculate a definitive figure for the financial settlement being offered to Mr Foley.
She said Stanford also offered a financial settlement that would probably have required them to remain silent.
Eventually the couple was offered a financial settlement, though it was not a moment to celebrate because it came at a price: silence.
Near the end of the second week, Horace Mann offered a financial settlement, with payments ranging from less than ten thousand dollars to more than a hundred thousand, depending on how badly the students had been abused and on whether they had alerted school authorities while they were still teen-agers.
Sometimes employers don't realise they're breaking the law until a case is brought against them, and they then offer to negotiate a financial settlement rather than the case reaching tribunal.
But the criminal case in court was too prolonged for the impoverished family to pursue: after a year they succumbed to the doctor's offer of a small financial settlement.
The EU is still waiting on an improved offer from Britain on its financial settlement, without which direct talks between the EU and the UK on a future deal will not begin.
The financial settlement was hampered by Lennon's refusing to offer any more than £75,000, telling her on the phone that the payment was akin to winning the football pools and that she was not worth any more.
When Interior officials offered Mr. Maxwell a confidential financial settlement to leave without a fight, he took the deal and moved to Hawaii.
Comparing the financial settlement to a hotel bill, Davis said UK negotiators were checking the details, not making a counter offer.
Its original intention was to offer a wronged spouse assumed then to be a woman legal recourse to prosecute a licentious marriage partner and thus receive a financial settlement or child custody.
