How does the court approach a situation where a party to the action is unrepresented?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cameron and Letkeman v. Cameron, 2015 MBQB 149 (CanLII):
In a recent Manitoba case involving unrepresented parties, Slipetz v. Trudeau, [2013] M.J. No. 159 (Man.QB), the court at para 8 described how a court should approach a situation where a party to the action is unrepresented. The paragraph is lengthy but the underlying principles may be summarized as being that self-represented litigants do not have “some kind of special status”; while the Rules of court cannot be ignored by them, the Rules are to be applied fairly as between both sides to the litigation.
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