Key legal question
Whether a self-represented party is entitled to compensation for personal effort and inconvenience
Extracted holding
No party compensation is owed for personal work and inconvenience to an unrepresented party absent exceptional circumstances, which were not present here.
Extracted reasoning
Such compensation is only exceptionally awarded where the matter is complex, has a high value, requires extraordinary effort beyond ordinary personal affairs, and the effort bears a reasonable relation to the outcome. Those cumulative conditions were plainly absent.