Litigant in Person

The court paperwork, handled.

Free software for people representing themselves in the courts of England & Wales. Enter your details once — 78 official court forms fill themselves in, deadlines calculate themselves, and replies to the other side's solicitors draft themselves for your review. It runs on your own computer. Your case never leaves it.

Download for Windows Other options

Free. No account. No upload. Windows, Mac & Linux — see downloads.

Honest numbers, measured — not marketing.

Every claim below comes from running the software against every form with a completed profile, and counting.

78

official court forms downloaded from GOV.UK and kept up to date, automatically

of every text box across all 78 forms fills itself from details you enter once

~

of a typical family form is filled or correctly marked "leave blank" before you touch it

0

bytes of your case sent to us — there is no server to send it to

What's left for you is what only you can provide: your own account of events, your choices, and your signature — which is exactly what a court requires to be yours. Every filled form comes with a colour-coded review copy showing what was filled, what to leave blank, and what still needs you.

How it works

Download and open it

One file. No account, no sign-up, no payment wall. The first run sets itself up — including double-click launchers so you never need a terminal again.

Tell it about your case, once

Your details, the other side, children if relevant, dates, amounts — or just upload the letter before action you sent or received, and it reads the details out itself.

Open any form — most of it is already done

Pick FL401, C100, N244, any of the 78. The identity boxes, party details, dates and money boxes are filled; the review copy shows green for done, grey for leave-blank, amber for "this needs you".

Answer their solicitors in one click

Chasing a reply, an unreasonable deadline, a settlement offer — pick the situation and get two or three ready-to-review drafts, with the matching document (a draft consent order, a schedule of documents) produced alongside where one is needed.

What it does

Built by a litigant in person, for litigants in person — every feature exists because the paperwork demanded it.

Forms
78 official forms across family, civil, High Court, money claims, possession, Court of Protection and enforcement — auto-filled, version-checked weekly against GOV.UK, with online-only forms routed to the right official page instead of a dead end.
Review copies
Every filled form produces a second, colour-coded copy for checking: green = filled for you · grey = leave blank, doesn't apply · amber = needs your answer. The filing copy stays clean.
Deadlines
Court deadlines calculated under the actual procedure rules, so "14 days after service" means the right date, not a guess.
Correspondence
One-click draft replies to the other side's solicitors in different postures — firm, cooperative, holding — with without-prejudice labelling handled correctly, and a dated conduct log that builds your record.
Evidence
Captures email replies from Thunderbird as dated, fingerprinted evidence — both sides of every thread preserved. Bundle building, pagination and signing certificates included.
Costs
Tracks your time at the litigant-in-person rate as you work, ready for the court's costs forms.
Your own AI, optional
Add your own AI key and letter drafts are tailored to the exact letter you received. Without one, you get solid templates. Either way, every draft is for your review — the software never invents facts and never sends anything itself.

Your case stays yours

There is no server. There is no account. There is nothing to leak.

The software runs entirely on your computer. The only times it touches the internet are the ones you trigger yourself: downloading official forms from GOV.UK, and — only if you choose to add one — AI drafting through your own key. Court cases involve children's details, protected addresses and financial statements. The safest place for that information is the one place it already is: with you. A one-click backup keeps a copy safe on a USB stick or your own cloud drive.

Download

Free, for everyone, always. If it helps you, pay what you can afterwards.

Windows — easiest

One file, nothing to install first. Download, open, done.

Download LitigantInPerson.exe Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit

Any computer — open source

The full, readable source. Runs anywhere Python does — Windows, Mac, Linux. Read every line before you trust it with your case.

Download the Python file Requires Python 3 (free, python.org) · installs its own libraries on first run
Windows may warn you the first time — here's why. New software without a long download history triggers a blue "Windows protected your PC" notice. Click More info, then Run anyway. The software is signed in our name, and the warning disappears on its own as more people use it. If you'd rather not take our word for it, download the Python version and read the source.

Pay what you can — including nothing

Legal help costs hundreds of pounds an hour, which is exactly why you're here. So the software is free, completely, with no locked features and no trial clock. If it saves you time, stress or money and you can afford to, a contribution keeps it maintained and free for the people who can't. If you can't — use it, win, and tell someone else about it.

Contribute what you can

Questions people ask

Is this legal advice?

No. It's a tool that automates the mechanical parts — filling forms, calculating deadlines, drafting letters for your review. It doesn't know the facts of your case and no solicitor–client relationship exists. You are responsible for checking every document before you sign, send or file it. Statements of truth carry consequences if false.

Which courts does it cover?

The courts of England & Wales: family court, county court and High Court civil claims, money claims, landlord possession, the Court of Protection, and post-judgment enforcement. Tribunals (like employment) file online — the drafting and deadline tools still help you prepare, and the software says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.

Where does my data go?

Nowhere. Everything lives in a folder on your own computer. The software has no server, no account system and no analytics. The only network activity is downloading official forms from GOV.UK and, if you add your own AI key, drafting through your own account.

What's the catch with "free"?

There isn't one. No locked features, no trial period, no ads, no selling data — there's no data to sell. It's funded by voluntary contributions from people it helped and organisation licences for advice charities.

The forms change — will mine be out of date?

The software checks GOV.UK weekly and tells you the moment a form you use has a newer version, with a one-click update. New form versions map themselves automatically.

Can I trust software with something this important?

Trust nothing blindly — including this. That's why the full source code is downloadable and readable, why every filled form comes with a review copy for checking, why nothing is ever sent without you pressing send, and why the software tells you exactly which boxes it filled and which it left for you.