Where the law gives an individual the right to a remedy, why must the associated cost so often render it a privilege? As Chief Justice McLachlin writes in the foreword to the Cromwell Report, “the problem of access to justice is not a new one. As long as justice has existed there have been those who have struggled to access it.” This is indicated by Clause 40 of The Magna Carta, an 800-year-old document, which states, “To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.”
