It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.