If they were truly apologetic, then they would not have resisted compensation claims and not dragged out the process over years and they would have actively taken a lead in working out ways to restructure police culture that stamp out the impunity and entitlement with which they act".
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it would robustly resist the compensation claim, which could be as much as £20,000, according to reports.
The relationship between MI5 and its agents should be one of "secrecy forever", according to lawyers for the Home Office who are resisting a compensation claim by an aggrieved informant who was shot seven times by the IRA.
Villiers' application implies that without being able to rely on the sensitive material in a secret hearing, at which neither the public nor McCafferty would be present, the authorities might not be able to resist his claim for compensation and to be freed.
On Friday, with Mr. Obama by his side, Mr. Netanyahu telephoned Mr. Erdogan, expressed regret for the raid (an apology he had long resisted) and offered compensation.
The United Nations has steadfastly denied causing the epidemic, which has killed more than 8,000 people since it began in 2010, and has resisted paying any compensation.
The publisher is talking to the FA's lawyers but is understood to have adopted a bullish attitude and to be resisting calls for compensation.
They resisted claims for compensation from its victims and refused to admit responsibility, even when the drug was condemned in court.The story of thalidomide is a sorry tale of corporate greed, institutional inadequacy, unnecessary suffering and cruel irony.
Ministers are resisting offering any compensation to those that made investments on the basis that as many as 30,000 tourists would fly to visit the remote but beautiful island.
Moreover, fair-minded democracies will find the call for compensation hard to resist at home.
