- Joined
- Mar 13, 2020
If you are a litigant in person and don't have any legal representation, a McKenzie Friend can help advise you in court, take notes, organise documents etc.
They aren't allowed to address the court directly or cross examine witnesses.
They don't have to be legally qualified or regulated.
So Styx or any potential litigant with no money could find one to help him argue his case in court and advise him on points of law, but he'd have to argue the case and examine witnesses etc himself.
I'm sure if he wanted to sue me he'd find a host of volunteers but
a) I've not said anything defamatory, I do believe he has committed physical assault/battery, it's genuine/honest opinion and I could prove to a court that on balance of probabilities such incidents occured
b) Public interest/reportage - he's a well known political commentator
c) it's not harassment - I'm commenting on an internet forum where his arrest and enrolment on a DV program is being openly discussed. I strongly discourage all posters from attempting to interfere in lolcows' real lives. Nobody is forcing him to read his thread and if he's being sent snippets, then it's these senders are the ones committing harassment sending him material that may cause alarm/distress.
He boasts of selling his soul to an owl demon who appeared in his dreams and spent 3 days in prison for suspected DV.
Any claim may prove shaky.
They aren't allowed to address the court directly or cross examine witnesses.
They don't have to be legally qualified or regulated.
So Styx or any potential litigant with no money could find one to help him argue his case in court and advise him on points of law, but he'd have to argue the case and examine witnesses etc himself.
I'm sure if he wanted to sue me he'd find a host of volunteers but
a) I've not said anything defamatory, I do believe he has committed physical assault/battery, it's genuine/honest opinion and I could prove to a court that on balance of probabilities such incidents occured
b) Public interest/reportage - he's a well known political commentator
c) it's not harassment - I'm commenting on an internet forum where his arrest and enrolment on a DV program is being openly discussed. I strongly discourage all posters from attempting to interfere in lolcows' real lives. Nobody is forcing him to read his thread and if he's being sent snippets, then it's these senders are the ones committing harassment sending him material that may cause alarm/distress.
He boasts of selling his soul to an owl demon who appeared in his dreams and spent 3 days in prison for suspected DV.
Any claim may prove shaky.

