Comments on: Costly defense of U.K. terror trial

By: kat

kat — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:26:56 +0000

Let’s see–a full year of trial, each of seven defendants having to be separately represented, experts and investigators paid out of this for each one, over 3500 witness statements, and over 105 prosecution witnesses. It was certainly an expensive trial, but it seems to be the basic cost of providing a competent defense with adequate resources to criminal defendants.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:17:38 +0000

This, of course, is why lawyers insist that the cost of the law — they say justice, of course, but that’s just advertising — cannot be stinted. Ther eis no sacrifice too great — so long as it go into rather than out of their pockets.

Remember when ‘pro bono’ meant that the lawyer took the case for love of justice with no hope of monetary return? Or is that just something out of fiction?

Bob