The High Court has once again expressed its frustration with
"quack lawyers" advising lay litigants to bring
nonsensical, unmeritorious applications before the Court, which not
only cause harm to those lay litigants in receipt of this so-called
"legal advice", when they are at their most vulnerable,
but also cause systemic harm to the administration of justice, on a
daily basis, in this jurisdiction.
Mr. Justice Michael Twomey, delivering his judgment in the case
of Teresa Barrington and Sean Barrington -v- The
Attorney General & Ors1, drew an interesting
parallel between the "pseudo legal advice" given
by people who are not legal practitioners to lay litigants on a
daily basis in the courts, and the prospect of "quack
doctors" giving pseudo medical advice to patients in
hospitals, when those patients are at their most vulnerable, which
of course would not be tolerated.
