Does Europe not have the concept of a court-appointed lawyer?

> RTBF makes it possible for ordinary citizens who can't afford fancy lawyers to fight big corporations to seek redress.

No it makes it possible for criminals to hide their criminality. To be very blunt, if I were an employer, I don't want to hire a murderer. I don't care if he/she was convicted and served their time. Once you have committed murder, I will not hire you. I will not deal with you in any way. Hiding/obfuscating true information from me is wrong. Criminality is public record. It should be easily accessible.

Not sure you understand how court-appointed attorneys work. First off, you can't use one to sue someone else since you can only get a court-appointed attorney when you're being charged in a criminal suit.

Second, court-appointed attorneys suck. They are underpaid, overworked, and unable to properly do their jobs as is.

Requiring legal action would indeed create a scenario where only the rich bring such cases to trial.

RTBF does not protect murderers, this is a fundamental lack of knowledge of the law and its clearly marked boundaries.