Lord
Thomas of Cwmgiedd was the first lord Chief Justice to say that UK's civil
justice system is only for the rich now. Well, that's because they cut our
legal services benefit. Now, we're forced to represent ourselves.
After
reading the Lord's report, the £780m spending for modernising the courts with
new technology was well-spent.
However
the new budget and the technological upgrades themselves have made the price
for justice higher for the lower tiers of society.
The
progression of costs have been too steep, to be honest. I have to agree with
him when he said that the access to justice has become marginalised.
What
may be causing this situation?
To
be honest, no one knows. But I can speculate one thing.
There
is a need to modernise the laws in the UK. Another is, to protect the UK from
possible economic troubles, public legal services spending had to be cut.
Another
way is that it solves the problem of piling cases in the UK courts. While
modernisation through technology improves the quality of service and time
needed to process a case, it also reduces the number of petty to medium-serious
cases coming in.
But
then, why are judges saying that their work had increased significantly in the
last three years?
It's
a weird UK nowadays.
