"self-repper" meaning in English

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        "Something that self-replicates."
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          "text": "When I was in practice against someone who was self repping I always put a bit extra in the accompanying statement explaining the split and would sometimes ask the self repper to sign a letter to the court confirming that they had had legal advice in the background but weren't represented - only when that was true of course but lots of people did just get ad hoc advice from a lawyer without them going on record as acting.",
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          "ref": "2017, Sarah Moore, Alex Newbury, “Legal Aid in Crisis”, in Legal Aid in Crisis: Assessing the impact of reform, page 8:",
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        "(colloquial, law) A person who represents themselves in a court of law."
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