Since when are Court Orders meant to humiliate ?
Well, in reading the entire article it appears that Apple in the UK was required to post a statement on their loss of the case on their UK website. Apple did so, but also posted what was later determined to be incorrect and misleading information and the UK court decide to add a penalty for their cheekiness.
Well - first we’re talking about English courts, so don’t apply our rules, cause they don’t apply. Second, the court found that Apple’s claims of copying weren’t true under English law, and they had substantially harmed Samsung. This was the corrective measure the court cooked up.
Then Apple got snarky!
So the court got equally snarky, and not only forced them to implement the order as it originally was issued, but has fined them through awarding maximum court costs to Samsung, which is all they can do under English law.
Full coverage of the blow-by-blow available on groklaw.net