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Justice, provided that you can afford it.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-legal-aid-reforms-end-justice-for-all-lawyers-warn-8591234.html Under plans to save £200m solicitors will be paid fixed fees, with contracts going to firms like G4S New legal aid reforms end "justice for all"   The objective of course, is to deny people access to legal redress for negligence, personal injury, abuse by the rich and powerful and the media, and all the other Tort's against ordinary people, which are becoming so prevalent in society today.

Reforms are nothing to do with justice.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/05/legal-aid-cuts-could-see-people-taking-law_n_2809111.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Legal Aid reforms due to be brought in April could undermine the rule of law. Access Denied?   The reforms to the Legal Aid system, has nothing to do with justice or with government savings. The "reforms" are purely designed to prevent ordinary people having recourse to law. The removal of legal aid from areas of law, particularly for cases of clinical negligence ensures that only the rich will have access to justice. Lord Justice Jackson:  "legal aid should remain for clinical negligence"  A cynical and grotesque move by a wretched government primarily determined to prevent claims against negligent HHS Trusts and incompetent medical staff ever being brought before the courts.