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"The Legal Services Consumer Panel, which last year welcomed the emergence of remunerated McKenzie friends....."

One contrasts the laissez-faire, de-professionalisation attitudes of the legal regulators with that of other professionals particularly medical who would give them short shrift.

Perhaps I'm wrong and one can look forward to a time when you are lying on a surgical table awaiting your operation when the Theatre Nurse announces to you that there is no funding for your Consultant of 20 years standing but that the hopeful looking teenager standing next to her with a bag of tools and a copy of Heart Bypass Surgery for Dummies will help you through it.