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As the Judicial Working Party Report on Litigants in Person states: "Providing access to justice for litigants in person within the constraints of a system that has been developed on the basis that most litigants will be legally represented poses considerable and unique challenges for the judiciary. As we describe below, cases will inevitably take more time, during a period of severe pressure on judicial time. However, litigants in person are not in themselves “a problem”; the problem lies with a system which has not developed with a focus on unrepresented litigants."