When will the Court exercise their discretion to order a Litigant in Person to file a budget? Rarely if CJ & LK Perk Partnership -v- Royal Bank of Scotland is anything to go by.
Kathryn Regan It has been drilled into litigators over the past 7 years that all parties are required to file and exchange budgets in Part 7 multi-track cases, save for the excepted cases under CPR 3.12(1). All parties except for Litigants in Person that is. Recently a represented party issued an application against a…