> Is the need to use an expert the issue or rather the price point? Why would it be wrong to avail yourself of someone else's expertise (and people use lawyers in non-case law jurisdictions, too)?
Even needing an expert at all is an issue - the law that governs society needs to be accessible to members of society, long before they reach the point of litigation.
It might also be a function of legal tradition/system. In some places laws are quite easy to read for me, in others I find it much tougher (as a non-lawyer).
Even needing an expert at all is an issue - the law that governs society needs to be accessible to members of society, long before they reach the point of litigation.