On 25/3/07, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: >The nightmare had become reality. Late Friday a United States >Marshall came to our front door with legal papers served for Grace's >father. He's an unemployed alcoholic, part-time drug dealer who lives >near Edinburg, Scotland. But like all citizens of the Uk, he's >entitled to free legal aid. So when my daughter, who was tired of >being beaten and locked in an apartment, fled Scotland with Grace, he >sought legal aid. He doesn't really want Grace. He wants to punish my >daughter for leaving him. But the UK legal aid system is monstrous. >They were able to retain the best law firm in Michigan to represent >him. The law firm evidently was able to pull some strings. We weren't >served papers until Friday night for a Monday court appearance. The >first lawyer my daughter talked to wanted a 20K US retainer just to >show up. Luckily, I have some friends in law as well. I eventually >found a very aggressive young woman lawyer who will represent us >tomorrow. I still have to come up with a six K retainer, but that's >better than twenty K. I think the Brits and their social welfare >state should go directly to hell.
Paul, Of course I wish you and your daughter the best of luck and hopefully common sense will prevail, and I know you're probably tired and emotional, but I have no aspirations to head down into the bowels of the Earth just yet. Our legal aid system is not perfect - far from it - but it does give everyone a fair crack at the legal whip. If what you say is true, and I'm sure it is, then you have nothing to worry about. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
