Forgive me if I've asked this before, but...

What are people's thoughts on a loser-pays court system, where the loser pays the winner's legal fees?

It sounds like that's the only way a poor private citizen can win against a giant corporation or other evil entity who can just stall out until the citizen runs out of money, but my gut is telling me that it's far more complicated than that, and there's a reason we don't do things that way.

EDIT: ...You know what, I take this all back.

I just remembered that I first heard of this idea in the 1990s when Big Media was doing a report on excessive frivolous lawsuits against big corporations.

Which means a loser-pays system is exactly what they fucking want.

Screw that, make 'em pay.

Forgive me if I've asked this before, but...

What are people's thoughts on a loser-pays court system, where the loser pays the winner's legal fees?

It sounds like that's the only way a poor private citizen can win against a giant corporation or other evil entity who can just stall out until the citizen runs out of money, but my gut is telling me that it's far more complicated than that, and there's a reason we don't do things that way.