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As a layman (76), I am puzzled by this article. At school and throughout my life, I was taught or it was proclaimed that our incomparable Common Law system provided equality before the law for all people. But it became more and more apparent that this was untrue and that the judges and legal profession were complicit in allowing it to happen.
Now we have this article acknowledging the fact, but only for businesses incapable of matching the legal resources of the giants of the corporate world, such as banks. No mention, of course, of the individual bank client plaintiff, who would never have the resources to scare their opponent into giving in, or even, quite often, to chance refusing the offer made by their car insurer.
Yet nowhere have I seen a plea, like this one, from the profession, least of all the judges, for a complete reform of the system to establish true equality of arms, to the nth degree possible, in all cases from the moment they start to progress through whatever system of resolution is deemed approptiate.

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