The legal system needs to reconnect with the British public if the rule of law is to be maintained, according to legal experts, with one possible solution a roving court that would enter local communities.

Speaking on a panel about the threats to the rule of law at a U.K. Pro Bono Week event on Monday, Lady Hale of Richmond, former President of the U.K. Supreme Court, said: “One of my solutions would be a justice bus. People think I’m joking, but I’m not, and in fact in other countries something similar does exist.”

Lady Hale. Credit: Dan Kitwood