ABSTRACT
Justice in England is not a state service freely available for all, but a lucrative business, the monopoly of which is in the hands of a highly organised profession with expensive entry fees. The independence of the judiciary is a principle of the British Constitution. The system of legal administration in which they operate is peculiarly conservative and antiquated. In Britain itself the judiciary has not infrequently exceeded its proper functions. By reference to its own principles it has been able sometimes seriously to modify the principles of public policy even when these have been clearly enunciated by the Government and accepted by the Commons in proper statutory form. Theoretically all are equal in the eyes of the law, and it is the proud boast of those who in the orthodox manner laud the virtues of British democracy that a poor man and a rich man have the same prospects of justice.
