The Court declined to relieve a self-represented plaintiff from the consequences of a self-executing order dismissing her Part IV family provision claim, where she attempted to file a Notice of Trial without paying the required setting down fee and thereafter made no genuine or sustained efforts to rectify the non-compliance. The Court confirmed that a self-executing order operates automatically upon non-compliance and that paragraph 1 of the dismissal order was not itself a 'determination' appealable under s 17(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1986, with r 24.06 being the appropriate mechanism to seek relief. The Court also refused leave to appeal costs orders, finding no manifest error where costs followed the event of the plaintiff's unsuccessful and effectively abandoned proceeding.
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