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Today the Judiciary released their long awaited Consultation on McKenzie Friends.

 

Most importantly, the consultation proposes a ban on fee-charging McKenzie friends in order to protect ‘vulnerable litigants’ from unregulated, uninsured and unqualified individuals.

 

The article from the Law Gazette website outlines the Consultation in detail (and the online comments make interesting reading !!!).

 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/judiciary-proposes-ban-on-fee-charging-mckenzie-friends/5053851.article

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Found a Law Society Gazette article on the family court incident last year, where whilst representing a Mother, one of these guys unleashed foul mouthed tirades in court, and cornered the Barrister in the corridors

 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ex-bouncer-mckenzie-friend-banned-after-calling-lawyer-a-lying-slag/5049010.fullarticle

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Found a Law Society Gazette article on the family court incident last year, where whilst representing a Mother, one of these guys unleashed foul mouthed tirades in court, and cornered the Barrister in the corridors

 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ex-bouncer-mckenzie-friend-banned-after-calling-lawyer-a-lying-slag/5049010.fullarticle

 

He is Nigel Nigel Baggaley. He is also likes to use a different identity: Nigel Quinlan

 

 

Although he is truly obnoxious he has singlehandedly managed to get the Judiciary to overhaul the entire McKenzie Friends market.

 

This is a blog of his

 

http://istyzackmad.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/my-open-statement-to-president-lord_14.html

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This 'profession' (for want of another word) came under severe criticism in court a few days ago.

 

The court made cost orders of £2,000 each against two McKenzie Friends for the part that they played in legal proceedings. Although the orders were overturned at appeal, (with the MK's being represented by a Barrister !!) the case highlights why this industry urgently needs to be regulated.

 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/campaigning-mckenzie-friends-avoid-2000-cost-order/5053891.article

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Found a Law Society Gazette article on the family court incident last year, where whilst representing a Mother, one of these guys unleashed foul mouthed tirades in court, and cornered the Barrister in the corridors

 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ex-bouncer-mckenzie-friend-banned-after-calling-lawyer-a-lying-slag/5049010.fullarticle

 

The Judgment itself is highly critical (link below)

 

PS: Sometimes we have trouble on this forum with links to Bailii. I have provided another one as well in case it does not work.

 

http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2015/1496.html&query=Nigel+and+Baggaley&method=boolean

 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/266636127/In-the-matter-of-NIGEL-BAGGALEY-aka-Nigel-Quinlan

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