If we want prevent wire-pulling, reinforce the diaphaneity in the adjudgment, the civil judgment should reflect the course of quote, query and attestation in the civil case adjudgment adequately.
It is never an attestation of a value, or even of our imperfect sense of one, it is never a tribute to any truth at all, that we shall represent that value badly.
" Of course you can't. But what you can do is to tell me I am right—to give me an attestation, as it were" . And the Doctor accompanied this remark with another professional smile.