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So you have the same problem, a rich person can pay over that hourly rate and have better representation and a poor person is capped at that rate.

• anoncake 7y ago
  No. They can't. That's the point.
• moccachino 7y ago
  In a way, but the downside to the losing party is limited. Also in (at least some of) these systems, it is not an automatic order for the losing party to pay, the court can decide to order it or not. I don't think there really is any feasible way to prevent rich people and companies to have access to more/better representation.
• zaarn 7y ago
  You can't pay them significantly more, for certain court cases (especially for copyright violations) there are hard caps on a number of fees the attorney can raise. Plus you can get a significant sum of the cost paid by the state, even IF you loose.
• ambicapter 7y ago
  The poor person is not "capped" by the law, but by their inability to pay more, which is the case in both systems.