Comments on: McKenzie friends ‘Beside’ or ‘Behind’? It all depends if you’re Scottish or not! http://www.mckenziefriend.com/2009/11/10/mckenzie-friends-beside-or-behind-it-all-depends-if-your-scottish-or-not/ brought to you by leading McKenzie Friend and Lay Advocate, John Junk of www.familycourtsupport.co.uk Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A judicial climbdown on McKenzie friending in Scotland – almost, but not quite… YET http://www.mckenziefriend.com/2009/11/10/mckenzie-friends-beside-or-behind-it-all-depends-if-your-scottish-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-69 A judicial climbdown on McKenzie friending in Scotland – almost, but not quite… YET Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:26:33 +0000 http://www.mckenziefriend.com/?p=195#comment-69 [...] First it was that McKenzie friends should sit behind and not beside the litigant in person… [...] [...] First it was that McKenzie friends should sit behind and not beside the litigant in person… [...]

]]> By: Peter Cherbi http://www.mckenziefriend.com/2009/11/10/mckenzie-friends-beside-or-behind-it-all-depends-if-your-scottish-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Peter Cherbi Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:03 +0000 http://www.mckenziefriend.com/?p=195#comment-5 How right you are ... The debate in Scotland about McKenzie Friends has been turned by the legal establishment into a debate on who controls access to justice, and as you rightly put it, the fear that McKenzie Friends will build up experience, regularly appearing in cases to the point of gaining a right of audience, the thought of which seems to drive the Scottish legal establishment wild with jealousy. Sadly, trying to bring Scotland's 'control freak protectionist' legal system into line with the rest of the UK in terms of access to justice, McKenzie Friends, or increased rights of audience seems to be blocked at every turn ... the battle however, goes on. How right you are …

The debate in Scotland about McKenzie Friends has been turned by the legal establishment into a debate on who controls access to justice, and as you rightly put it, the fear that McKenzie Friends will build up experience, regularly appearing in cases to the point of gaining a right of audience, the thought of which seems to drive the Scottish legal establishment wild with jealousy.

Sadly, trying to bring Scotland’s ‘control freak protectionist’ legal system into line with the rest of the UK in terms of access to justice, McKenzie Friends, or increased rights of audience seems to be blocked at every turn … the battle however, goes on.

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