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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (15765)	6/6/2001 12:33:43 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Very true. The Legal Aid scheme (by which an individual's costs could be at least partially covered, depending on income) has been curtailed, especially in non-criminal cases - owing to the ever-increasing cost of lawyers... - with just this result. This certainly benefits the relatively rich, who become the only ones who can afford any but the surest cases... not ideal. OTOH in a market system, would it be right to (for example) dictate the fees to be paid to lawyers? This has also been tried, to some extent, with the results that a lot of law firms simply switched to the more lucrative (unregulated) commercial law field.