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Legal Advice & Funding. Where a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation instructed a barrister under the Bar's Licensed Access Scheme, the presence of the barrister did not prevent the party on whose behalf the barrister had been instructed from being a litigant in person. The words "acting as a solicitor" in s.20 of the Solicitors Act 1974 were limited to the doing of acts that only a solicitor could perform and/or the doing of acts by a person pretending or holding himself out to be a solicitor. A party was not entitled to recover costs as a disbursement in respect of work done by another that would normally have been done by a solicitor.
