56 Court may appoint or dispense with legal personal representative (1) Where in a proceeding it appears to the Court or a Justice that a deceased person who was interested has no legal personal representative, the Court or Justice may (on such notice to such persons, if any, as the Court or Justice thinks fit, either specially or generally by public advertisement) proceed in the absence of a person representing the estate of the deceased person, or may appoint some person to represent his estate for the purposes of the proceeding. (2) An order made under this rule, and an order consequent on that order, shall bind the estate of the deceased person in the same manner in every respect as if a duly constituted legal personal representative of the deceased had been a party to the proceeding.

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