Rule 21.2 Requirement for a litigation friend in proceedings by or against children and protected partiesF1

A protected party must have a litigation friend to conduct proceedings on F2their behalf.

Unless the court makes an order under paragraph (3), a litigation friend must conduct proceedings on a child’s behalf.

The court may make an order permitting a child to conduct proceedings without a litigation friend.

An application for an order under paragraph (3)—

Where—

the court may appoint a person to be the child’s litigation friend.

Where one of the parties is a child or protected party, that party shall be referred to in the title to the proceedings as “[name] (a [child] [protected party]) by [name] as litigation friend”.

Where one of the parties is a child conducting the proceedings on their own behalf, the child shall be referred to in the title as “[name] (a child)”.