Does not using a lawyer make you a litigant in person?

By Robert Akenhead2019-02-28T06:00:00

To what extent may a company without legal representatives be treated as a litigant in person?

Companies are not like you and me. They cannot prepare drafts or sign documents – to do such things, they must act through human agents. While detailed rules exist to allow companies lawfully to take some of the same actions as humans, the interaction between the separate legal personalities of the company and the individuals behind it can cause difficulties. This is one feature of an appeal court decision late last year, in Ndole Assets Ltd vs Designer M&E Services UK Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2865.

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