//If you can afford a certain person to defend you you should be able to surely?//
// Why? because that's the situation now? //
No, because it's a fundamental principle that you can choose someone to represent you and argue your case. Forget well-heeled lawyers for a sec. It may well be your uncle Harry, who may not even a lawyer, but because you think he's the best person to do the Job - or you may choose to represent yourself.
So, George Michael has chosen Hotblack Desiato & Richb'staad. Good luck to him.
You may also think it's not fair that wealthy people get to live in bigger houses than everyone else. It doesn't mean that the state should take control of all the housing stock and re-distribute it on a random lottery basis... actaully maybe you think it should - I don't want to give you any ideas.
Quite apart from all that, I don't think he's been treated particularly differently - justice seems to be dished out pretty randomly anyway, people receiving fairly light sentences for what I consider very nasty crimes, and the next week some poor s0d being incarcerated for nicking a packet of crisps from Tescos.