‘McKenzie friend whom the Gazette has been investigating since the end of last year has been featured on a BBC current affairs programme on which his former clients spoke of feeling ‘devastated, destroyed and distraught’ by his actions.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 13th February 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Two parents fighting legal battles for custody of their children paid thousands of pounds to a company providing “McKenzie friends” – people with no legal training who assist in court. But they were badly let down.’
BBC News, 13th February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) report on legal services yesterday provoked a predictably mixed response that pitted the Law Society against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and found support from the body representing paid McKenzie Friends.’
Legal Futures, 16th May 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In his monthly column, James Bickford Smith discusses two important decisions concerning respectively the applicability of costs budgeting rules to litigants in person and the court’s approach to attempts to control a litigant’s choice of McKenzie friends.’
Littleton Chambers, 7th November 2016
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘A jailed McKenzie friend could be released from prison for the day to represent himself in a claim lodged by an aggrieved former client.’
Law Society Gazette, 24th October 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The activities of unregulated, untrained and uninsured McKenzie Friends in the family courts is to come under the microscope with the commissioning of field research by the Bar Council into how they handle court work.’
The Bar Council, 10th June 2016
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has accused the Law Society of misrepresenting its views on McKenzie Friends.’
Legal Futures, 14th June 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘People are avoiding regulation as immigration advisers by “purportedly acting as McKenzie Friends”, the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) has warned.’
Legal Futures, 8th June 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has submitted its response to the Judicial Executive Board (JEB) consultation on the approach courts should take to McKenzie Friends.’
Legal Services Board, 26th May 2016
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘The judiciary should act now to prepare for thousands of extra litigants in person who may be vulnerable to exploitation by paid McKenzie friends.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st April 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Following legal aid cuts, plans to bar McKenzie Friends from charging fees will put help beyond financial reach for many.’
The Guardian, 13th April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘England and Wales should follow the example of Scotland in banning McKenzie Friends from charging fees, the Judicial Executive Board (JEB) has proposed.’
Legal Futures, 25th February 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Judicial Executive Board (JEB) has issued a consultation paper proposing reforms to the existing guidance for “McKenzie Friends”, non-lawyers who offer assistance and in some cases seek to appear as advocates on behalf of litigants-in-person (LiPs).’
Court & Tribunals Judiciary, 25th February 2016
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Companies can be represented in court by McKenzie Friends under rights of audience granted in exceptional circumstances, the High Court has decided.’
Litigation Futures, 30th October 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A Biggleswade man who made more than £5,000 after advertising his services as a professional McKenzie friend has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of multiple trading standards and housing benefits offences.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st August 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
A solicitor who became a professional McKenzie Friend after 20 years in practise, has hit out at the burden imposed on high street practitioners, which he said cost him almost £2m and pushed him into personal bankruptcy.
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Legal Futures, 6th August 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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