We must ensure there are mechanisms to protect fund claimants.
On the other side, a shortage of funds has led many authors to retract, apologize and often pay damages rather than lose a case against a well-funded claimant and potentially go bankrupt.
"This case demonstrates most starkly where you have inequality between claimant and vastly well funded defendant," said Linda Lee, president of the Law Society.
The £3bn cost of the £2,000 tax allowance would be funded from a crackdown on benefit claimants who avoid working.
Gloster welcomed the recent £2m funding announced by the family justice minister, Simon Hughes, to help unrepresented claimants but added: "I wouldn't recommend anyone go to the publicly funded bar or the criminal bar.
In one farcical case, a claimant was accused by Concentrix of living with the philanthropist Joseph Rowntree, whose largesse had funded the housing association property in which she lived.
In recent years, claimant lawyers, led by Newcastle-based lawyer Stefan Cross, have unleashed a tidal wave of equal pay litigation on our employment tribunals funded on "no win, no fee".
Benefits paid to claimants are based on actuarial estimates of wage-loss, but do not include medical costs that are covered by the Canadian publicly funded healthcare system.
According to data released on September 10th by Sheila Birnbaum, who helps administer the fund, 7,885 claimants were found to be eligible for payment, and over 1,800 have received money so far.
"We are also giving local authorities £190m funding this year, so vulnerable claimants get the help they need during the welfare reforms".
