ABSTRACT
Having gone thus far it may be useful to review the principles and conclusions which have emerged from the preceding chapters. For a statement of general principles it is difficult to improve on the three main points laid down in a paper 1 read to the International Law Association in 1901, and subsequently endorsed by that Association:
All courts of every country should be open to all persons notwithstanding their poverty or nationality.
Where lack of means prevents litigation on the usual conditions these should be relaxed and the way provided whereby a poor person can prosecute or defend a claim and obtain justice.
In every populous place or seat of a court of justice free legal advice from properly qualified lawyers should be obtainable by persons unable to pay for it.
