The Chorley exception – barristers included
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This is a postscript to an earlier post about the Chorley exception, a legal rule that although self-represented litigants are not entitled to professional costs in acting for themselves in court proceedings, there is an exception where a solicitor is self-represented. It is named after the decision in London Scottish Benefit Society v Chorley (1884) […]