Nearly one-third of people with legal problems in the UK suffer a stress-related or physical illness as a result, new research shows.
Some 31% of people in the UK and Canada, and 30% of people in the US, said their legal issue made them ill, according to the World Justice Project’s annual Rule of Law Index, published last week.
The late Sir Henry Brooke would have agreed. Writing in NLJ this week, columnist Jon Robins recalls the former Lord Justice of Appeal explaining to him the ‘false economy’ of legal aid cuts: that ‘if you tackle the causes of the potential stress and mental health issues at the start, you save a great deal in healthcare costs and the breakdown of relationships, loss of employment and housing later down the track’.
