There are a number of things I do not care for in the English culture; but I never felt the need to post something as "get in your face" as this. You are posting on an "American" site, after all.
Evening famous!
There is a lot I detest about English culture. You give me a 50 item list and I can triple it within 10 minutes. And yes, this was meant to be inflammatory slightly.
But suing for your rights? How is that even a thing? They are your rights. Full stop. Assuming you have to sue means you are letting some pissed off and bored judge who just wants to go to lunch adjudicate. It is one of the things NO one outside the continental USA seems to understand.
Unlike most of us - with our unwritten constitutions, corrupt governments and a frankly don't really care attitude - you guys have them written down on a piece of paper. Yet you need spend good money and time to enforce the rights you already have. China has a better system than that!
All the time we hear of activist judges. Judicial activism. The courts making the law up from whole cloth with some odd interpretation that makes no sense. Why voluntarily let them?
Yesterday, when we were discussing school meals - a perfectly valid point came up. Why should a school district or a single principal dictate what children can or can not eat.? It makes no sense from that stand point. Yet, if you take a school district to court - you will lose. They can not only afford the lawyers, they can afford the time and have an intense interest in covering their own well padded backsides. Plus they get the benefit of the "expert" effect. Think about it - you raise two kids - the school looks after 500 at once. The diet (or dress policy, or busing, or zero tolerance) has a passle of educational experts who have probably never seen a kid supporting it with thesis, written statements and verbal garbage on TV.
Who is a judge going to believe? A bunch of expert witnesses or a parent?
So - why play their game? If you must go the legal route - let the state sue you.