It's absolutely ridiculous that being rich can enable someone to use lawyers and the legal system to silence people who have genuine cases.
I know the system was set up by the privileged in the first place but this has to stop. There needs to be fundamental change in this area.
And being poor, or even middle class, basically prevents people from accessing justice.
A few years ago I was severely wronged by a big company. I explored a civil suit. I would have essentially had to risk my entire life savings in order to fund the case. I instead opted to purchase a property as thats what i had been saving for. I still regret it sometimes, but it was simply a financial risk I couldn't afford to take. As for no-win no-fee, I couldn't even get the case reviewed for free, so paid £500, to be told it was too complex to do on a no-win no-fee basis, and could have cost anywhere in the region of 10-30k to pursue, plus the defendants costs if I lost.
Also you aren't even entitled to free legal defence of you're taken to court for a criminal or civil matter, if you have more than I think about 12-16k in savings. Which, if you're in your saving for a deposit for a house, or putting a little money away for retirement, its an amount of money you might have, but you're still in reality poor. So some people are faced with the decision of risking their life savings to defend themselves in court, or accept an "out of court disposal".
When the rich complain about taxes I always think of this. The justice system, both legal and civil, should be entirely funded by taxes in my opinion. The rich wouldn't even lose out so much financially, because they too would get free representation if they chose rather than spending 10s or 100s on thousands of solicitors. However, they want to have the best legal representation they can afford, which means the legal system is built on who can afford to pay for it rather than equal representation for all. They want a two-tier social system. And plenty of knuckle draggers in the lower tier are happy to support the two tier social system because they are spoon-fed bullshit conservative propaganda.