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by multjoy 2877 days ago
Actually, that's not true. The courts (in E&W, at any case) can ask for a security (so cash or other assets) or a person to stand as a surety.

They rarely do so, but the highest profile one in recent times was when Julian Assange slipped off to that ground floor flat in Knightsbridge and cost his supporters the thick end of £100k

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Ju...