This title rather makes me feel that the United Kingdom is actually going back in time, as far as access to justice is concerned. It may well sound very alarmist to some people, but alas, following the sweeping cuts that have been made to the right to legal aid, it is an absolute fact.
The coalition government and even the Labour administration before them have all had a hand in withdrawing more and more areas of law from people on legal aid. Some make complete sense: after all, it has always personally got my goat that tax payers were expected to fund divorce proceedings when a person was unable to do so - I have never agreed with this.
Our legal system is proving to be available to the rich more and more nowadays, however. Especially when you consider those immoral super injunctions whereby the rich and famous are able to buy silence from the mere menials of society. It would usually take the average person a lot of scrutiny of an equity release calculator to determine whether or not they could ever afford to buy such an extortionate piece of justice.
Seriously, though, our legal system appears to be heading entirely in the wrong direction. We have never been able to use the word justice in a way that we actually believed it existed in the first place; but now, it is becomingly increasingly clear that justice will only ever be available to those that can afford it.
