What is the standard of courtesy, courtesy and formality of a self-represented plaintiff in a personal injury trial?

There is no doubt that the trial process is a highly stressful one. Accordingly, we require of those participating in it a degree of civility, courtesy and formality that is by modern social standards archaic, but nonetheless effective in controlling that stress and encouraging the truth to emerge. Litigants who are self-represented are naturally less used to this practice, and persons who find themselves overcome by the stress ought not to be foreclosed from access to justice solely because of a temporary loss of equanimity; see, for instance, MacGougan v. Barraclough, 2004 BCCA 651.