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Inability to access the justice system due to high legal fees is not necessarily something that hurts both parties equally. If one is just above the legal aid cut-off point and the other is not, the one who qualifies for legal aid will have a terrific advantage. For this reason the so-called working poor are probably the hardest hit by the system’s problems.

The private sector is very limited in how it can respond to this problem. The limits come mostly from the fact that each province has legislation that grants provincial bar societies the right to restrict the practice of law. What would telephone rates be like now if the big phone companies had been making all the rules? Companies offering cheap long distance or local service would never have been permitted to get started. Cable TV companies would have been forever barred from entering the telephone market. The result would be that telephone rates would be sky high.

This is the situation today with legal fees. Unless you meet the provincial bar societies’ criteria, and pay their hefty annual practice fees, it is illegal to practice law. Nevermind the fact that paralegals, with highly focused training and experience are capable of providing even better representation than lawyers in specialized fields. The fact is, these rules do not preserve the quality of legal representation as their proponents claim, they simply preserve near 100% market share for lawyers.

The answer to over-priced lawyers is the same as the answer to over-priced anything – competition. People need to put pressure on politicians to stop treating them like children or imbeciles who need to be protected from making stupid decisions. Consumers of legal products need the freedom to utilize whoever they wish to provide everything from legal document assembly, to advice, to courtroom representation. This is the only way to make lawyers either prove they are worth their hefty fees, lower their prices, or lose their clients to those who can.

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