Necessity or Ideology?
Frederick Wilmot-Smith: Legal Aid, 6 November 2014
“... be impeded in many different ways. Cost is the most obvious. In Alice’s day, presentation of a bill was free, so even the poor had some access to justice. Today, if she is unable to afford to go to court, her theoretical right to have her case heard will be small comfort. And the high quality of the English legal system has endowed it with an exorbitant ... ”