{"id":9378,"date":"2013-08-20T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:15:19","slug":"pistorius-steenkamp-civil-suit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9378","title":{"rendered":"Pistorius, Steenkamp, civil suit: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9380\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reeva-steenkamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9380\" alt=\"Reeva Steenkamp\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reeva-steenkamp-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reeva-steenkamp-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reeva-steenkamp-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reeva-steenkamp.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reeva Steenkamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oscar Pistorius&#8217;s lawyers are trying to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with the parents of his dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, The Times reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pistorius&#8217;s lawyer Kenny Oldwage confirmed that they were in discussions with the Steenkamp family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You will understand this is a very sensitive situation,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steenkamp and her half-brother Adam reportedly helped their pensioner parents Barry and June financially, including with the rent on their home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her parents have lodged a multimullion-rand civil claim against Pistorius for loss of income and emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pistorius&#8217;s lawyers want to settle the lawsuit before the outcome of the criminal trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advocate Petrus &#8220;Dup&#8221; de Bruyn, for the Steenkamps, said &#8220;nothing has been decided on yet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steenkamp&#8217;s mother, June, declined to comment on the civil suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is just too much&#8230; we are grieving&#8230; missing our baby&#8230; our beautiful, beautiful daughter who should have been celebrating her birthday today [Monday],&#8221; June Steenkamp said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pistorius appeared briefly in the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Monday for shooting Steenkamp on February 14 in his Pretoria home. His trial for alleged murder was set for March 3 2014. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Pistorius&#8217;s lawyers are trying to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with the parents of his dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, The Times reported on Tuesday. Pistorius&#8217;s lawyer Kenny Oldwage confirmed that they were in discussions with the Steenkamp family. &#8220;You will understand this is a very sensitive situation,&#8221; he was quoted as saying. Steenkamp and her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pistorius, Steenkamp, civil suit: report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,5290,40,2545,2547,2936],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-kenny-oldwage","tag-murder","tag-oscar-pistorius","tag-reeva-steenkamp","tag-trial"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reeva-steenkamp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9382,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions\/9382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}