The price of justice - Professions challenged

Anyone who has been confounded by the cost of taking a court action will empathise with remarks made by Mr Justice Michael Peart at the weekend.

The price of justice - Professions challenged

He confronted his colleagues in the legal professions about their image as ā€œgreedy ambulance chasersā€ and criticised inflexibility and delays in our court systems.

It is interesting that his views are shared, in part at least, by the EU/ECB/IMF troika administering the funds we depend on. Whether the change they, and Mr Justice Peart, seem to want eventually arrives can only be a matter for conjecture but history suggests that the legal profession’s instinct for self-preservation is a powerful force not easily cowed.

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