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Suppose your lawyer thinks you have a 90% chance of winning - against a neighbour who might run up a $1000 bill for legal fees, the same as you. Then it's worth the risk.

Now suppose you are up against a bank that can run up $10M in fees (or claim their in-house lawyers cost that) - now to be $1000 at risk you need a case that is 99.999% sure before the lawyer's insurance company will let them take it.

It's getting less common now that local councils are actually fighting the claims.

Before suing a local council or the NHS was a guaranteed win, often out of court - so the lawyer couldn't lose and it was worth taking a no-win no-fee. Now that they go to court a lot of them are demanding the client pay a hefty insurance premium up front - of course that's not a 'fee'.

The judges (in the UK) are appointed from senior lawyers by other judges who were themselves appointed by previous judges etc... It does mean that it takes a few generations to get many black or women judges - but it does reduce the level of corruption and means that a lot of politically motivated prosecutions get thrown out.

It's not democratic - but neither is the process of selecting senior doctors from the ranks of junior doctors.

They would have given the contract to BAe who have delivered them 10years late for 100x the cost and they wouldn't have any keys.