Jolyon Complains Legal Losers Have to Pay Losses

Jolyon Maugham took time out of his busy schedule losing cases today to speak about “social justice” at the Open University’s Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Guido picked up on some of Jolyon’s definitely-not-personal analysis of the legal system:

“The way our system allocates costs means that if you litigate and you lose you will generally pay the winner’s costs – so even if you have lawyers acting for free you can often not fight because if you lose you face enormous financial penalty, even bankruptcy.