Courts must carefully examine the pleadings of self-represented litigants to identify any viable cause of action, even where the statement of claim is prolix, ill-expressed, and contains much irrelevant material. Where arguable causes of action can be discerned from the material facts pleaded, the court should not strike out the entire statement of claim without giving leave to re-plead those viable claims. A court may recall and vary its own unperfected orders where it has proceeded under a misapprehension of fact not attributable solely to the party seeking the rehearing.
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