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Defeated by high legal costs: the terrible injustice most of us could face
It’s one of the most glaring gaps between theory and practice in our community, a huge disconnect between our democracy and our economy.
A terrible injustice most of us could face.
Everyone knows about it, but it’s rarely discussed.
What is it?
The prohibitively high cost of justice.
We’re all supposed to be equal before the law, but you ain’t anything like equal if they can afford a lawyer and you can’t.
The president of the Law Council of Australia, Fiona McLeod, is running a campaign to highlight the plight of people who, in theory, should be receiving aid to help them with their legal problems but, in practice, often…