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again, this was days before the Appeal hearing was due to
                 start.
                 Solicitor wrote a letter and sent it to The Appellant and The
                 Appellant mother email on
                 20/09/2016
                 which had also been sent to the Court, putting an application
                 again to be removed from record. This was listed in Court to
                 be heard on the
                 21/09/2016
                 There were large sections within this letter that were
                 incorrect and did not happen, this can be proven by the
                 Court transcripts for the
                 16/09/2016
                 On the
                 21/01/2016
                 we were on our way to Court and got caught in traffic, we
                 contacted the Court to get a message to the Judge to say we
                 were going to be 5 to 10 minutes late, I know the Judge got
                 the message.  When we got to the Court there was a barrister
                 that Michael Carroll and Co had sent to the Court to deal
                 with the application for them to be removed from record.
                 The Barrister informed us she did not want to leave the
                 Court before explaining what had happened it seemed the
                 Judge had called this into Court without us being present and
                 removed the solicitors from record.  How could this have
                 happened considering, The Appellant was not present at
                 Court, and there was not a senior Partner from Michael
                 Carroll and Co and also what had been said previously by
                 His Honour Judge Morrison on
                 19/02/2016
                 The Barrister said the Judge wanted to see us and we would
                 need to wait in Court until we were called, as the Judge was
                 dealing with a trial and we would be called in after it.
                 Around 16:00 hours we were called into Court, the
                 Respondent did make the Judge aware at this point that what
                 had been said by His Honour Judge Morrison on the
                 19/02/2016
                 stating that a Senior Partner was not present at Court, The
                 Judge replied that he could not force a solicitor to carry on
                 with a case they clearly did not want to, and that The
                 Appellant could represent himself that the case was in much
                 better order now. But the Appellant has learning difficulties
                 and health problems which the Court are well aware of, there
                 was only a few days until the Appeal hearing was due to
                 start, how could a Judge believe that a person with learning
                 difficulties and health problems could be ready and cope
                 with dealing with a three-day Appeal hearing on his own.
                 We did try to get the Judge to adjourn the Appeal hearing so
                 we could try and get representation put in place due to
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