Alone in Court: What Happens When Ordinary People Face the Justice System Without a Lawyer
Every year, thousands of people in England and Wales walk into a courtroom without a lawyer. Nobody tells them what they are walking into.
This book does. Drawing on the case files of Blind Justice UK, it follows ordinary people through the decision to fight, the paper war, the tactics of the other side, the day in court, the cost, the obsession, the loneliness, and what winning and walking away really feel like. Every chapter ends with what it means for you.
An electrician owed twelve thousand pounds for work already done, who found that being right was nowhere near enough. A teaching assistant whose defence never reached the judge, and who sat in court holding her copy of it while possession was granted. A hairdresser who opened a twelve page letter from a City firm and felt her hands go cold. A woman who won her tribunal claim on every point and recovered a fraction of the award. Their names have been changed. What happened to them has not.
This is not a textbook. It is a field guide, written by someone who has stood in court alone himself, for anyone about to do the same.
With a foreword by Lord Smith of Finsbury, who calls it 'an enormously valuable, and long overdue, book'.
Edward Romain ACILEX is the Founder and CEO of Blind Justice UK, a registered charity supporting litigants in person.
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