Invest4Justice’s Founders Interviewed In French Magazine

The latest issue of the magazine Grazia features an article concerning the impact of the internet on the judiciary in its latest edition.

Grazia interviewed William Kirtley and Emmanuel Launay, two of the founders of the Swiss association (verein) Invest4Justice, to learn more about Invest4Justice and how it works.

As noted in Grazia, crowdfunding litigations is fully legal in France, as in most countries, although it may pose moral and ethical questions, such as whether society would like to reward those who are best able to present their case in an appealing manner, since only the best-presented disputes can obtain crowdfunding.

Grazia also poses the question of whether the legal market should be treated like any other market, as it is in some countries, or whether there is something about it that makes its special. As long as the adjudicator remains independent and impartial, however, we cannot see how allowing people to use crowdfunding to pay for their legal dispute could possibly be a bad thing.

In our opinion, Invest4Justice is in fact an unqualified good: it allows those who might not have the ability to do so to defend their legal rights in court. There is no reason to believe that allowing wealth (since legal fees are expensive) to determine who gets access to courts is better than allowing peers to determine whether a case is worth funding. In fact, there are many reasons to think that allowing wealth to determine access to justice is highly unfair and undemocratic.

Invest4Justice is a non-profit, and only 4% of the funds raised are reinvested into the association or cases. With over 75,000 visitors per month, many appear to understand that the time has come for litigation crowdfunding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invest4Justice's Founders Interviewed In French Magazine