Report comment

"The Lord Chief Justice said this week that civil justice is now ‘unaffordable to most’."
Yes, but he still takes a fat salary for presiding over it or even remaining as a judge. This is the same criticism as I made years ago when (not quite so) well-paid heads of Council Social Services and particularly Children's services repeatedly defended repeated failures to handle cases effectively (or at all) by complaining that the services were historically underfunded, which none but the politicians would deny. If they really cared about their clients, especially the children, the honest thing to have done was for all the Heads to get together and agree to resign on a given date if, what they not MPs considered, sufficient funds were not provided, and tie themselves to the stake by making that declaration publicly at the same time as they sent it to the HoC.
Doctors could do the same for the NHS, which would be a prod, not just to the vulnerable and defenceless, but to the whole population to become angry, not just discontented, with government's self-interested management of it.
It's not impossible to reject a 'responsibility' which was traditionally to your 'clients', when it becomes clear that that will surreptitiously be subordinated to provider interest. When tertiary education was re-organised in the early 90's and 'bums on seats' became a major criterion for funding, it was made clear that prospective students coming on advice days/evenings should be 'captured' unless we really had no course they would fit into, rather than, as I normally did, advise them that a course that most precisely fitted their, realistic, desires was to be found at an institution that was about to become a 'competitor'. The result was that 3 years later, I was out of a job but had already found another part-time one and realised that there were other opportunities to be taken, if money was more important than free time (I'm not an extravagant spender), a re-employment situation I supposed would be similar to the Council Dept heads and the doctors, who are already voting with their feet.