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26th February - Law News

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FOCUS OF THE DAY: The judiciary is proposing a ban on fee-charging McKenzie friends in order to protect ‘vulnerable litigants’ from unregulated and uninsured individuals. In an eagerly awaited consultation on the issue, published today, the judiciary also recommends that all McKenzie friends sign up to a code of conduct, and that rules governing the courts’ approach to McKenzie friends be legally codified. The consultation follows mounting concerns over the behaviour of such practitioners after a former nightclub bouncer was last year barred from acting as a McKenzie friend after calling a lawyer a ‘lying slag’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette




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