Suppose an in person litigant wins their case. Now suppose they wish to seek costs from their counterpart. Typically this is assessed at £19ph. But what if this litigant was disabled, for example paralysed or with polio? And required a scribe who was to be paid hourly in order to write for them? Or a general aid to help them around as they work?
Or what if they weren’t so disabled, but had paid a personal assistant a certain rate in order to assist them in legal research, or they had purchased costly subscriptions to legal research databases in order to support their preparation of their case?
Are any of these costs recoverable by an in person litigant?
