In my case on two occasions I managed to get my clients their money back before initiating proceedings, and the way I did it is by showing them what we will do to them if they do not pay up and we go ahead. It is not a threat, it is a clear presentation to them of 1+1=2.
I'm happy for it to take 10 years, as long as I know who I am up against, unlike the BTC crap going on now. You are accusing the prey of being guilty for falling to the scum bag, man you take such terrible positions it's not funny. The prey is not guilty for falling into the traps, putting traps is illegal. What I'm guilty of is using a faulty system like BTC, it is like a very beautiful woman walking scantily clothed on a ship with 40 sailors none of them gay who have been at large for weeks and hoping not to get mugged, to put it politely on a public forum. If you didn't get that one, try: using BTC is like using Windows 95 and hoping not to catch a virus. Enjoy your BTCs and the one who takes them from you in exchange for anything, good on them finding the next idiot.
Clearly you have very little experience in court dealings. We have repo'd cars that are without engines and tires and all and we sell what we can, but going after these people is nearly impossible. When their defense is something like the engine was stolen and insurance needs to pay it gets another party involved that ads time, difficulty and expense. Even if it goes smooth a lot of times you can't bleed a turnip an example in one particular case we won the defendant ended up showing criminal intent - he went to jail but did we see a dime?.... nope!
mate your case is totally different! yes if the bloke is on the joint then yes no use running after them and it is even difficult to land him time, he'd just be owing you and guess what he can pay when he wants or until you claim again... TOTALLY different story!
Here no one is broke and your money is in their pockets, well lego or monopoly money or not even, numbers referencing the block chain... BTC is so dirty better start a new coin. All the coins in all the wallets are either premined or scammed out of people. The 99% have mined their coins on electric heaters, sorry i mean fast protocol specific processors and many own only a few BTCs.
And no I don't blame myself for anything, such as falling for a HYIP. I am not giving the son of a bitch an epsilon excuse. Anyone meets him in real life meat the shit out of him.