Article 48 RepresentativesI1
England and Wales
Any party may appoint a legal representative to represent that party in the proceedings.
If a party appoints a legal representative, that party must send to the Tribunal and every other party written notice of the representative’s name and address, together with a copy of the notice.
Anything permitted or required to be done by a party under these Rules may be done by the legal representative of that party, except signing a witness statement.
A party who receives due notice of the appointment of a legal representative—
must send to the legal representative any document which, at any time after the appointment, is required to be sent to the represented party, and need not send that document to the represented party; and
may proceed on the basis that the representative is and remains authorised as such until they receive written notification to the contrary from the representative or the represented party.
At a hearing a party may be accompanied by another person whose name and address has not been notified under paragraph (2) but who, with the permission of the Tribunal, may assist the party in presenting the party’s case at the hearing.
Paragraphs (2) to (4) do not apply to a person who accompanies a party under paragraph (5).
In this rule “legal representative” means—
a solicitor;
a barrister;
a person who, for the purposes of the 2007 Act, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation within the meanings given by Schedule 2 to that Act.