JimUk1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:02 pm
Looking through some of the comedy commercial liens, one does appear to have been stamped by a qualified attorney?
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Is she short of work? Why else would you put your name to that crap? And if the common law court doesn’t recognise lawyers ect, why are they getting it stamped by someone registered with the law society? Strikes me as strange?
I think you might have misunderstood the solicitor's role in this.
If someone walks into a solicitors' office and says they want to swear an Affidavit, then all the solicitor has to do is to witness the signature and administer the oath. The solicitor isn't expected to know the contents, meaning or intention of the document, or even read it - all they're doing is confirming that the person before them has signed the Affidavit and sworn on the holy book of their choice its contents are true. When I was in private practice a lifetime ago, we kept an Old & New Testament, Koran and Gita in reception, so we had the majority of the holy books people might want to swear on. In the case of atheists, it's an Affirmation.
The document is signed in front of the solicitor, and the oath is: "I swear by Almighty God (or, in the case of an Affirmation, I do solemnly and sincerely affirm) that this is my name and handwriting and that the contents of this, my Affidavit, are true."
Then the fee is paid in cash - it used to be £5 per Affidavit and £2 per exhibit - not sure how much it is now, and in my case the money would go into the office cake and ice cream fund to keep the secretaries sweet.
I'm sure I witnessed signatures being put on all sorts of garbage over the years. But just because I've seen someone signing a document and I confirm I saw them sign it and that person has sworn that it's all true, that doesn't mean I'm involved in whatever scheme the Affidavit is being used for.