PART 3MANAGING THE CASE
Case management – unrepresented parties3
1
This rule applies in any proceedings where at least one party is unrepresented.
2
When the court is exercising any powers of case management, it must have regard to the fact that at least one party is unrepresented.
3
The court must adopt such procedure at any hearing as it considers appropriate to further the overriding objective.
4
At any hearing when the court is taking evidence, this may include—
a
ascertaining from an unrepresented party the matters about which the witness may be able to give evidence or on which the witness ought to be cross-examined; and
b
putting or causing to be put to the witness such questions as may appear to the court to be proper.