The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The legal system fails most people because costs are too high for justice to be accessible.
- In plain terms
- Justice is unavailable to those without money to pay legal fees.
- What can you take from it?
- High costs block access to justice.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do costs affect fairness?
- Who pays for justice?
Another view
Some legal disputes do not require full court trials.
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