The Law is An Ass

Recently somebody close to me was involved in a case at the high court, through no fault of his own he has been bounced around the legal system for the last couple of years, having to learn and understand legal jargon that even legally trained minds struggle with, because of the complexities of the case he had to retain a barrister and these people do not come cheap. A brief background to his particular case is that he had been granted a lease by a company that did  not really have the right to grant it, no matter that my friend had no idea, he bought his business in good faith through a solicitor who done all due checks. many years passed and he had established himself in the community and was making a reasonable living.Then a multi million pound property company decided it would buy up the whole block and turn it into a shopping centre, it cleared the area with a mixture of carrot and stick and  where it could bully shopkeepers and scare them of with legal threats it did and where it was very cheap to buy them out it also did. my friend realising that ultimately he would have no choice decided to accept an offer, but the sums involve were paltry so he resisted. when the bully boy tactics started he was forced to get legal representation. because of the wealth of these company’s they can drag out cases like this for years and are able to employ teams of barristers, eventually through a technicality they were  able to win, leaving my friend with crippling costs, no business, and no immediate prospects of employment, How can this be allowed to happen if my friend had unlimited wealth he could continue to fight and maybe win his life back. but the law is an ass and as usual the little man suffers.