Since the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Tinkler v Elliott, there have been a number of decisions in the High Court and Court of Appeal which proffer guidance for the practitioner as to the treatment of litigants in person.
In a recent article for the Commercial Litigation Journal, Thomas Crockett of 1 Chancery Lane reviews these decisions in light of the recent publication by the Judicial Working Group as to their recommendations to the judiciary as to how to deal with what is expected to be a very significant rise of litigants litigating without lawyers in the civil courts.
The article is available here: http://1chancerylane.com/barristers/thomas-crockett/publications/