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Can't wait to see the disasterous effects of trying to teach litigants in person the finer points of MedCo and the Portal.

Portal users to pay for the service in the future so that means what, litigants in person will have to register their details and pay a fee to use it? Just like that. Only in public sector la-la land would this make any sense.

And the effect on the Courts when hundreds of litigants in person turn up (perhaps queuing behind the army of self-representing family breakdown Court users). Judge's know all too well the difficulties and frustrations when dealing with self-represented litigants.

No doubt that famously basic foundation of equal access to justice will really stand up to the test when burly, high blood pressure barrister walks in with his arm full of books to represent the insurance company and Gladys, an elderly lady from number 98 who's self-navigated the Portal and MedCo, has no response when the Judge asks, so what do you say in respect of quantum.

The whole structure smacks of an intellectual fraud. There appears to be other things beneath the surface that are driving the government's disproportionate desire to help their off shore friends in the insurance industry.