Whatever happened to the ‘rule of law’ in the UK?
Most people can't afford legal advice or pay for lawyers. Only the rich/corporations can afford to go to the courts.
There can be no equality before the law unless there is equality in access to the law.
https://leftfootforward.org/2024/11/whatever-happened-to-the-rule-of-law-in-the-uk/
Most people can't afford legal advice or pay for lawyers. Only the rich/corporations can afford to go to the courts.
There can be no equality before the law unless there is equality in access to the law.
https://leftfootforward.org/2024/11/whatever-happened-to-the-rule-of-law-in-the-uk/
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If access isn't equitable and the law almost seems to have been designed to allow the haves to get away with far more than the have nots, respect for the law will suffer.
And that's dangerous territory to be in.
When consecutive UK governments are complicit in genocide and the mass murder of thousands upon thousands of children, why would anyone believe such soulless people care about justice for all ?
#50sWomen had to crowd fund to go the High Courts & were royally "stomped on" by the establishment who paid their lawyers millions £s out of the public purse. Costly & inequitable exercise all round.
A couple of clichés:
1) The law is whatever you can afford it to be.
2) Justice delayed is justice denied.
@barristersecret.bsky.social covers the financial injustice and more in their books.
@kirkkorner.bsky.social covers the IPP scandal.
Oligarchs clog up the system.
There are also so many rogue solicitors out there ripping people off. Last year Solicitor took me to court and put a charge on my house, but their client didn’t even exist…
only certain people can afford legal advice or attorneys
The less well off are always penalised and marginalised in the UK