What jurisdiction does a non-lawyer have to appear before a court?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stone v. Stone, 2000 CanLII 20767 (ON SC):
[7] Historically, it has been considered part of a court’s inherent jurisdiction to allow non-lawyers to appear before it. See, for example, O’Toole v. Scott, [1965] A.C. 939, [1965] 2 All E.R. 240, [1965] 2 W.L.R. 1160 (P.C.).
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