Judge Michael Pert QC told the pair: "I make it plain that, in my judgment, being shot is not mitigation.
"This is not mitigation for the job cuts at BAE, that has to be a separate agreement... and I've written to the prime minister to ask for assurances for additional work to be coming into the dockyard in Portsmouth".
If there wasn't any mitigation at all, I think that would be a fairly draconian application of the World Anti Doping Programme.
The exactly nature or scope of any mitigation was not spelled out by the Chancellor, however.
However, the relative value of individual mitigations is less clear, especially where response policies were universally applied and retrospective analyses are missing 'controls' (i.e., areas where a mitigation was not applied).
After 1999, risk mitigation was not given proper consideration by the decision makers and budgetary bodies (the duty holders) and there was no functioning early warning system.
In mitigation, Martins was not exactly helped by Sibierski, whose display was characterised by less than deft link play and at times a woeful first touch.
However, Recorder Ignatius Hughes said he had taken full account of Kovacs' mitigation, which was not read to the court, and found him to have been "reckless rather than dishonest".
The 'temporary insanity' mitigation plea was not upheld, he was found guilty, and received a life sentence.
In one of the largest studies to examine helmets, their use was found to significantly reduce head injuries, but was not associated with serious injury mitigation across all body regions.
