A person intending to present his or her case before a court without legal representation would be wise to first take a look at the case of Chapman v Colson, a recent decision of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where an unrepresented litigant was found to have elected to abandon a defence based on the Limitation Act 1969 (NSW). Had the unrepresented litigant pursued the defence at the hearing of the matter, the plaintiff’s cause of action may have been statute barred and the unrepresented litigant may have been entitled to a judgment in his favour. Read about the case here.
