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... of high quality legal service.

Having evidence of examination results, a practising certificate and insurance doesn’t unquestionably make you a good lawyer, of course, and a lot of the McKenzie Friends’ arguments are that they have witnessed poor practice among the ‘approved’ e.g. ‘The reality of unaffordable barristers is, for example, charging £2,400.00 for an opinion, strewn with spelling and legal errors,’ but statistically speaking the standards exhibited in the profession are high, are they not? And are they not high because competition is relatively strong?

Likewise it is entirely possible that an ‘unapproved’ McKenzie friend (or somebody who didn’t obtain top grades) might be a superb advocate, but it doesn’t follow that every McKenzie Friend is a good advocate.