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Canada: Access to justice becoming a privilege of the rich, judge warns

By ADF Alliance Alert

The Globe and Mail: "The middle class has been shut out of a justice system that caters primarily to the very rich and the very poor, the country's top judge has told a group of legal luminaries. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada said on Tuesday that the middle class cannot hope to pay legal fees that average $338 per hour, leaving them little option but to represent themselves in court or go away empty-handed."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).