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It seems interesting to reflect on an historical footnote. Even before he published Wealth of Nations in 1776, Adam Smith LLD was pointing out that what we now call access to justice and equality of arms cannot be part of a free market. Instead, these goods are the prerequisites, the foundations without which a free market cannot exist. The interesting bit is that the modern UK appears to be completing the destruction of the free market - simply by eliminating equality of arms and certainty of transaction (you can't rely on the protection of contract law if you can't afford remedy)...
Secondary, non-rhetorical questions: are we placing the "correct" market financial price on justice and the rule of law? And how can we ever justify our answer, given our creation of a centrally planned economy?