If we're
serious about access to justice, then our focus should be on reducing all of the inherent inefficiencies in the litigation process — not to mention societal
inequities generally — and not on producing more lawyers who can't even afford their own services.
Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of ACOSS, noted when launching the report that growing
inequities in income and wealth are a «problem both socially but also, importantly, economically as the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has alerted us to, with an important report just last week, that if we're
serious about economic growth, concentration of income and wealth in the top is bad for the economy».