An Association of McKenzie Friends became necessary on a number of occasions that resulted in frustration and similar unpleasant feelings, especially when helping Litigants in Person who are in prison – on remand, i.e. unconvicted:
- After having been allowed ‘legal visits’ in HMP Holloway twice, one McKenzie Friend was ‘downgraded’ to social visits, i.e. no papers could be taken in by either the inmate or the McKenzie Friend
- this made it impossible to prepare the response to an Order, let alone an appeal in time
- McKenzie Friends were not allowed to speak to the prisoners who were waiting in the court cells
- instead, they were given 20 minutes by a judge during a family court hearing.
Our Aims and Objectives are therefore:
- to raise awareness of the value that McKenzie Friends bring to Litigants in Person – as an alternative to lawyers
- to play the role of advocacy on behalf of victims of white collar crimes and child snatching
- to lobby those responsible for making change possible
- to publish relevant findings and experiences in the public interest.
Our immediate campaigning goals are:
- allow McKenzie Friends the rights for legal visits in prisons
- allow McKenzie Friends to instruct barristers
- the recognition of ‘public interest advocacy’, when McKenzie Friends present their observations in courts or represent cases at meetings with MPs.
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ive been told i am going to prison for responding to my girls in care
they contact me and all there brothers and sisters
i did try and tell the judge last case and he wouldn’t listen
Dear Jayne
I can’t bear hearing and reading these Draconian restrictions and am really sorry!
David Paul Jenkins is starting a major campaign on Facebook to ask for the children back:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/161136530656028/181353675300980/?notif_t=group_activity
His website and phone number are here:
http://www.familiesfightingforjustice.co.uk/
Sorry I can’t do more, unless you feel like filling in the attached form so that you’re also on the records of John Hemming MP.
We can then approach him for help, too.
Has a ‘final hearing’ been scheduled???
Keep the Faith!
Don’t let either yourself or your kids down!!!
Sabine
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A suggestion.
The Mothers & Fathers of children being threatened with imprisonment
for contacting their children placed in care and elsewhere.
Is it reasonable to suggest they use a Mckenzie Friend to convey messages & instructions
to their children, a judge would find it impossible to isolate children from the world
it would be solitary confinement without a conviction of any kind criminal or otherwise
it would mean a judge is a tyrannt and acting beyond his powers ! under whose
warrant or authority does a judge act ?
In fact they should appoint as many Mckenzies as possible to ridicule & expose this
human torture and cruelty, the authorities are inflicting permanent harm by depriving
children from their parents if the children desire contact! All mail should be addressed
to the Political Prisoner then name address etc. the postmen & women will soon
spread the word, Taking children for monetary reward is political ! otherwise it is
kidnapping and criminal with a life sentence.
The way that Social Services and secret family courts operate is such that, in my experience, it takes:
1. McKenzie Friends to assist with Social Services meetings BEFORE they enter court rooms. However, at that point, parents have no idea what is happening to them
2. CONTACT is always only organised in ‘contact centres’ where only parents are allowed
3. The Association of McKenzie Friends needs to make best possible use of these ‘levers’ in the system.
4. Once in court, it depends on individual McKenzie Friends what they may achieve. Hence the Association so that we can learn from each other!
With many thanks for your suggestion,
S
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I am looking for a McKenzie friend to assist in a High Court action that has been dragged out for years.My representatives have been negligent racked up huge costs and they are now trying to bankrupt me and take my property!! Help!
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Please help. I need a mckenzie frien to save my family home from a wicked ex employee. I have positive list of evidences but need some legal asvice, as i cant afford paid legal advice. Please reply urgently.
Can you please send a summary of your case, with the list of evidence to sabine AT 3d-metrics.com? I’ll forward it to your ‘ace in case law’ who is feared by the Royal Courts of Justice. He does it bro bono, but we must not waste his time.
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‘bro bono’
Wasn’t he in U2