Whilst the lack of geographical coverage offered by formal law courts is a major factor behind the preference of customary law, so too is the lack of trust in formal justice. (globaleducationmagazine.com)
But you can't just kill your neighbor in cold blood without formal justice, which would be murder. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The results of over two decades of legal problems research, including approximately fifty major studies from around the world, have consistently told us that the prevalence of everyday legal problems experienced by the public is so great that it extends well beyond what could feasibly, or should be, dealt with by the existing formal justice system. (slaw.ca)