McKenzie Friends.
You have a right as a litigant in person to undertake your own eviction process. Many landlords would like to be able to carry out their own process but unless you read the rules extensively, as straight forward the rules are when you know what they are it is very easy to make one simple fatal mistake. We have twenty years’ experience grown as the rules changed and we want to help. Asist is what we can do but no more.
If you want to be represented there are plenty of high street solicitors out there who would do that for you or you can find a solicitor here.
The Law Society
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Law Hive
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Do a search of your own
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Why choose us?
The chances are that you came to us through recommendation since we do not do any marketing. We will talk with you in a normal everyday manner. We will not demand money up front before we will speak to you. You can pick our brains as much as you want at no cost, but in the end, you will like our honest hard working ethos and that’s why most want our assistance. And because we are not solicitors. Further, as you are a litigant in person, and we are definitely not solicitors you may be concerned that we haven’t a clue what we are doing. Then go find a solicitor.
Practice Guidance: McKenzie Friends (Civil and Family Courts)
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1) This Guidance applies to civil and family proceedings in the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), the High Court of Justice, the County Courts and the Family Proceedings Court in the Magistrates’ Courts.1 It is issued as guidance (not as a Practice Direction) by the Master of the Rolls, as Head of Civil Justice, and the President of the Family Division, as Head of Family Justice. It is intended to remind courts and litigants of the principles set out in the authorities and supersedes the guidance contained in Practice Note (Family Courts: McKenzie Friends) (No 2) [2008] 1 WLR 2757, which is now withdrawn.2 It is issued in light of the increase in litigants-in-person (litigants) in all levels of the civil and family courts.
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The Right to Reasonable Assistance
2) Litigants have the right to have reasonable assistance from a layperson, sometimes called a McKenzie Friend (MF). Litigants assisted by MFs remain litigants-in-person. MFs have no independent right to provide assistance. They have no right to act as advocates or to carry out the conduct of litigation.
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What McKenzie Friends may do
3) MFs may: i) provide moral support for litigants; ii) take notes; iii) help with case papers; iii) quietly give advice on any aspect of the conduct of the case.
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What McKenzie Friends may not do
4) MFs may not: i) act as the litigants’ agent in relation to the proceedings; ii) manage litigants’ cases outside court, for example by signing court documents; or iii) address the court, make oral submissions or examine witnesses.
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​No way would we do any more than contained in The McKenzie Friends remit.
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Should your case have the need for a court attendance we can arrange for an advocate.
