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Let's all take a deep dose of reality.

Not all courts have a separate entrance.

None of them have enough private consultation rooms (and that's before you find that this one is "reserved" for CAFCASS on Monday and that one for the Council on Tuesday and the next for the CAB on Wednesday!)

All courts are approached through the same streets whether you are male or female, claimant or defendant.

If they have anywhere to get a coffee it will be one machine or one counter for everyone.

So the parties cannot really be kept apart.


But most important of all: if the alleged perpetrator has been refused legal aid he will have to be allowed to act in person. And yes, that includes allowing him to cross-examine. And yes, litigants in person have to be given more rope than professional advocates, however upsetting that is for their opponents. The abominable breach of Article 6 which giving legal aid to one but not to the other party has consequences for the favoured party too, doesn't it?

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