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A goodly proportion of fee charging McKenzie Friends are probably both competent and qualified to offer their services to the public. If, for example, you have been made redundant by a factory firm or public body with only a statutory payment, you will have neither the contacts nor the resources to set up on your own account or to be acceptable to network type firms like Scott Moncrieff and Associates Ltd, and if you are much over 40, your problem is much worse.
I was impressed by the Consumers Association report on fee charging McKenzie Friends and I would recommend people to read it. As a 53 year old solicitor with no cash capital, client following or contacts, and faced with the scramble for what locum work there is and recruitment processes engineered for Generation Y, I am open to consideration of other means of using my skills to earn a living.
Consumers are not stupid, and nor are informed (and non-vulnerable ) ones as 100% risk averse as regulators would like to believe. If this Society's members can satisfy their clients at a cost they can afford, then why shouldn't the market decide?

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