Official apologies for past wrongs have not triggered legal liability in practice.

Evidence

There is also an argument with wide currency that an official apology by the Commonwealth Government will create enormous legal and financial consequences (in the sense that it is an acknowledgment of liability). This is despite the fact that all Australian state and territory legislatures, and many other governmental and judicial bodies, have made apologies without any of those consequences being evident. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 795

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Claims that apologies create legal liability are refuted by existing apologies; Institutional apologies for harm can coexist with active legal resistance — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 541; Pledging future amends can deflect criticism of present wrongdoing without requiring restitution — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 247

Broader Connections

• Claims that apologies create legal liability are refuted by existing apologies #corroborates (0.92)
• Institutional apologies for harm can coexist with active legal resistance #expands (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 541
• Pledging future amends can deflect criticism of present wrongdoing without requiring restitution #expands (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 247