We don't need more lawyers, we need equality

When a 58-year-old lawyer needs a 49-year-old lawyer to defend himself against a young mother of two, he is a loser. It’s not just his loss - it’s a tragedy of human ambition and moral decay.

Justice, in its purest form, should be simple. Truth should be undeniable, resting on solid evidence and honest witnesses. Yet what we call “justice” today often masquerades as theater. Courtrooms, meant to illuminate fairness, too often become stages for cold strategy, where money plays the lead and human suffering is merely a backdrop.

Private lives, once sacred, are torn open and paraded in public. Words once spoken in love or trust become weapons, reshaped to destroy, to humiliate, to win. Joy turns to spectacle. Consent becomes a casualty.

And those with the deepest pockets? They write the script. Those without? They cling to truth, praying it will protect them - but pray as they might, truth alone is fragile against the machinery of wealth and cunning.

On September 16th, in a courtroom near the heart of Poland, I stood alone. Against two decades of experience, against the polished defenses of well-paid lawyers, I stood armed only with evidence and belief in fairness.

Dignity and courage are not something you can easily take away from a single mom.

And somehow, I did not lose. But the victory was not mine alone - it belonged to the idea of justice itself, fragile and battered as it may be.

The Judge as the Last Light

For courts to truly serve justice, judges must become more than silent referees. They must be beacons, guiding the process so that fairness is not buried beneath spectacle.

For those who come unrepresented, for those whose voices are fragile, the judge must tilt the scales, not for them, but for truth itself.

In a world where a lawyer needs a lawyer to defend themselves, the system is broken. Confidence in one’s truth should not require an army of professionals.

In such a world, a worker confronting corporate abuse, a mother fighting eviction, should not fail because they cannot speak the obscure dialect of law. Evidence must be enough. Truth must be enough. The law should be a light, not a labyrinth.

The Cost of Performance

We live in an era obsessed with performance - on social media, in life, and tragically, in courts. But courts were never meant to entertain. They are meant to decide the fates of people, to protect futures, to safeguard mental health.

And yet, the process often revives the deepest wounds, forcing victims to relive trauma while paying both the emotional and financial price of someone else’s wrongdoing.

Justice should not demand a performance. It should demand honesty. Evidence should speak. Witnesses should matter. Complexity should not suffocate clarity. Lawyers may thrive on the machinery of ritual and procedure, but human lives do not.

The Tyranny of Wealth and Status

In the modern courtroom, wealth is a weapon, and status is a shield. Those with resources can summon legions of lawyers, each trained to exploit the smallest procedural loophole, each focused not on truth but on maximizing advantage. The sheer weight of their presence is overwhelming. It is not merely a battle of arguments - it is a battle of endurance, intimidation, and spectacle.

To face such forces alone is to stand against a storm with nothing but conviction and evidence. And yet, time and again, the system rewards the aggressor.
The one who can hire lawyers to write endless filings, to manipulate timelines, to craft narratives becomes the one who controls the story.

Money buys attention. Money buys strategy. Money can turn truth into a footnote and magnify falsehood into a headline.

Lawyers, as professionals, are trained to be efficient, persuasive, relentless, not truthful. They do not fight for justice, they fight for victory. And when victory is measured in the humiliation, exhaustion, or defeat of someone less powerful, the human cost is enormous. Mental health is a deadly issue.

Victims are forced to navigate an alien language, to understand complex rules, to defend themselves against a machine designed to overwhelm. Who is the aggressor then?

Justice Belongs to the People

Law is a promise: fairness for all, not just those with money or status. And yet, the promise is broken again and again. Courts should not be marketplaces for influence.
They should be sanctuaries for truth.
What we need is not more lawyers, but a system that listens directly to evidence, to victims, to perpetrators.

A system where human decency guides the process more than billable hours.

Justice should not be bought. Justice should not be bartered. Justice should be served equally. And in family courts, where hearts are broken and lives are reshaped, there are no winners - only survivors.