Representatives
11.—(1) A party may appoint a representative to represent that party in the proceedings.
(2) If a party appoints a representative, that party must send or deliver to the Upper Tribunal and to each other party to the proceedings notice of the representative’s name and address.
(3) Anything permitted or required to be done by a party under these Rules, a practice direction or a direction may be done by the representative of that party, except signing a witness statement.
(4) A person who receives due notice of the appointment of a representative—
(a)must provide to the representative any document which is required to be provided to the represented party, and need not provide that document to the represented party; and
(b)may assume that the representative is and remains authorised as such until they receive notification that this is not so from the representative or the represented party.
(5) At a hearing a party may be accompanied by another person whose name and address has not been notified under paragraph (2) but who, subject to the permission of the Upper Tribunal, may act as a representative or otherwise assist in presenting the party’s case at the hearing.
(6) Paragraphs (2) to (4) do not apply to a person who accompanies a party under paragraph (5).