A self-represented solicitor-litigant can recover costs only for work that is truly professional legal work, not for all time reasonably spent on the case. Witness expenses beyond time actually giving evidence are not allowed as a matter of course and require material justifying the additional attendance. The anomalous exception favouring solicitor-litigants over other self-represented litigants should be applied carefully rather than loosely.
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