Comments on self represented parties

I received some comments and emails about my post suggesting that it is foolish for parties to represent themselves.

Most of the responses said self represented parties can do a good job and lawyers don't always get good results.

Truth and I acknowledge same.

Some self represented parties get remarkable results -- look at Sheldon Blank in the Supreme Court of Canada.

And certainly lawyers are not perfect and get things mixed up sometimes.

But all that said, I still say, self represented parties generally don't have a good handle on the law or a sense of what will fly or not.

James Morton
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