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A High Court judge has said cit­i­zens should not be shut out of the courts be­cause they lack fi­nan­cial re­sources.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad made the com­ment yes­ter­day as he up­held an ap­pli­ca­tion by a Point Fortin man to pro­ceed with his med­ical neg­li­gence law­suit de­spite fil­ing it out­side the statu­to­ry time lim­it.

Jus­tice Seep­er­sad said: “The court does not on­ly serve the wealthy or the con­nect­ed, it serves all cit­i­zens and, ir­re­spec­tive of their cir­cum­stance, must en­sure that each and every cit­i­zen is af­ford­ed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to have rea­son­able ac­cess to the ju­di­cial sys­tem.”