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This is why the cuts to legal aid have such an impact on the rule of law. If the rich and the powerful know that nobody can enforce their rights against them, they have nothing to lose by trampling over those rights.

Legal aid ensured that some people could enforce those rights, which makes companies more wary of trampling over them, to the benefit of everyone in society. The rule of law is replaced by might is right when the possibility of effective enforcement is removed.

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