Editorial: Legal Aid prepayments cruel and unusual

Legal Aid Alberta has started asking prospective clients needing its services for an up-front deposit. It’s also planning to more aggressively collect repayment from clients. Those who don’t pay stand to lose legal counsel, no matter if they are in the middle of a case. 
There are ideas out there that promise to help fix Alberta’s broken justice system; this is not one of them. Effectively depriving the poorest, most vulnerable citizens of affordable legal representation i