Not sure exactly where this topic should be posted, but it relates to my experience over the last year as I lost my business so I am posting it here.

I guess I mean does it work in a fair and just way. Is the legal system broken if money is the deciding factor in the legal process? That can be a matter of opinion but in my opinion it only works if the person in the right wins over the person in the wrong. That may be a very simplistic way to look at things but as far as I can see it is the basis for justice and not if it is the other way around.

I know there are always two sides to every dispute, and most of the time both parties think they are right. I guess this is why the legal system puts to onus on each party to prove their case. I have no problem with this but I do have concerns with a system that is stacked against those that are less fortunate or with less financial resources.

If lady justice is truly blind, then someone forgot to take into account that she can hear the jingling of cash in people pockets.

As I see it, if you do not have enough resources to retain legal counsel and pay the huge sums of money it takes to depose your opponent and go to trial, when your opponent does, you may as well give up and walk away even if you know and can prove your in the right. Is this justice?

When lawyers can waste your money by doing nothing helpful only to tell you to give up because you now don't have the money to proceed to trial. And Judges squash your chances for a fair out come by humiliating your lawyer in front of everyone because he did not hear the judge. How can one expect to get a fair chance when this happens? How can one say the legal system is not broken if money is the deciding factor?