Patent Attorneys in Scotland Shall Gain More Rights.
"[...] The Scottish Executive has bowed to pressure from patent attorneys and accepted that they should be given right of audience in the Court of Session, along the same lines as the privileges accorded to advocates and QCs. [...]"
It will be interesting to see how this question will evolve on the European level. Obviously patent judges who met in Venice last year do not like patent attorneys. They appear to prefer attorneys-at-law (see sec. 5 - European Patent Counsel).