The experts also took a dim
view of litigants in person, whose numbers are widely expected to soar as the impact of legal aid cuts and other funding shortages is felt.
Not exact matches
The MoJ appears to reject the
view that
litigants in person would not be able to deal with their own claims, pointing out that there is a significant amount
of material available to assist and that many have «before the event» (BTE) insurance cover.
It is
in my
view the combination
of those two features, namely an application process which is
in accessible to most LIPs [
litigants in person] and the absence
of an economic business model sufficient to encourage lawyers to apply on their behalf, which makes the ECF scheme inherently defective and therefore unfair.....
Ten years on it is time to assess his achievements from the point
of view of the intended beneficiaries, the
litigants, most
of them
litigants in person.