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Tuesday, 4 October 2016

PROBATION REFORM AND McKENZIE FRIENDS

There were many who were doubtful of the hype surrounding "reform" of the probation service.  Sadly but predictably these scepticisms have borne fruit. I told you so is no response to the appalling mess created by Chris Grayling.  It seems political advancement  is the reward for failure.  

 With the advances in civilisation it seems that the idium "nature abhors a vacuum"  should  also be applied to humanity.  The wholesale decimation of our legal aid system and the consequences for those bereft of legal advice has in a remarkably short timeframe turned what was an occasional situation in courts into one where those unqualified in law but assuming the mantle of McKenzie friend have even formed their own association. I last posted on this topic 12th January 2016.  It seems, not before time, that the authorities are beginning to take notice of these people.   Perhaps some of the benevolence apparently seeping out from this Tory government will reach the MOJ.
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  1. Rogerborg7 October 2016 at 15:06

    Having kept a close eye on the state of private parking cases since the hilariously titled Protection of Freedoms Act passed, I have to note that principled McKenzie friends have regularly been thrashing ostensibly qualified professional solicitors in courts up and down the land. Perhaps some house cleaning by the legal professionl might be in order before casting the first stones through their glass walls.

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