The Doors Of The High Court Are, Like Those Of The Ritz, Open To Everyone.

[sandyRoe]

Will the hike in fees that comes into operation today see justice becoming beyond the means of some?

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/court-fee-hike-set-for-next-week/5047192.fullarticle

[scooping]

Twas ever thus

[sunny-dave]

You need to be very rich or very poor to use the law - the rest of us inbetweenies get stuffed as usual.

[EDDIE51]

With the cuts to Legal aid you can leave the 'very poor' out of the equation .
A lawyer always believes his client is innocent until proved broke!

[Bazile]

How many people can afford the Ritz ?

[Hypognosis]

This is analgous to the British Rail pricing policy: The service is overcrowded, fo we put on more services? No, we will apply the law of supply and demand and hike up the prices.

Then we will wonder why the roads are so overcrowded.

As an interviewee said on the news, "people will resort to other ways of getting justice". (I don't think he meant it to sound that sinister!)

Does Magna Carta say we all have equal access to the law or does it not?
(Or did it only mean barons and not all citizens, in the first place?)

[Peter Pedant]

Joosteece has always been pricey
and we are (re) learning that

and remember Folks! the guys that win, have the best lawyers

[sandyRoe]

Bazile, It was some judge said that about the Ritz. I think he was having a laugh.