In Depth: Businesses falling into the justice gap

Widely seen as a personal problem, diminishing access to justice also severely impacts businesses. Tony Buss, managing director at ARAG explains how the justice gap has become a major issue for companies in the UK and what brokers can do to help.

It’s easy to see worldwide that justice is not equally available to all.

Here in the UK, the justice gap may be harder to discern and has a second, subtly different meaning, referring also to the ever-growing gap between those few whose legal cases are still eligible for legal aid and those wealthy enough to fund legal action themselves.

What’s easier to see is that, however one defines it, the justice gap in the UK has grown steadily wider. The deep cuts to Ministry of