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again got the clerk of the Court to email Michael Carroll and
                 co to tell them they had to be in Court on the
                 19/10/2016
                 The Appellant mother also stated to the Judge that she had
                 made many phone calls to other solicitors and due to the
                 case being Appeal stage no one was willing to take the
                 Appeal on due to the cost they would get under legal aid,
                 that it was a set amount as legal aid believed that the
                 solicitors dealing with the Appeal would be the same
                 solicitors that dealt with the original trial, Appeals are set at
                 a standard rate so any solicitor taking on a case would not
                 get paid to go over the complete bundles, and take updated
                 instructions from the client.
                 Again, The Appellant mother asked the Judge if The
                 Appellant needed to attend Court on the next date, which the
                 Judge he replied no to.
                 On the
                 19/10/2016
                 again Mr A Cordell and I attended Court, once again the
                 solicitors was not in attendance, the Judge had had a letter
                 from Michael Carroll co stating Miss Ward no longer
                 worked for the company, the Judge was very upset and was
                 not going to allow this to be dropped, the Judge got the clerk
                 of the Court to email Michael Carroll and co to attend Court
                 on the
                 25/10/2016
                 The Appellant mother again stated to the Judge that she had
                 made many phone calls to other solicitors to try and get them
                 to take over the Appeal, and due to the case being Appeal
                 stage no one was willing to take the Appeal on due to the
                 cost they would get under legal aid, that it was a set amount
                 as legal aid believed that the solicitors dealing with the
                 Appeal would be the same solicitors that dealt with the
                 original trial, Appeals are set at a standard rate so any
                 solicitor taking on a case would not get paid to go over the
                 complete bundles, and take updated instructions from the
                 client. When the Appellant mother got home, she again tried
                 to call Miss Ward with no reply she also texts her with no
                 reply to the text.  On the
                 25/10/2016
                 again Mr A Cordell and I attended Court, once again the
                 solicitors was not in attendance, the Judge was very upset
                 and done an Internet search under Miss Ward’s name to find
                 out if she was working under a new solicitor, he found the
                 new solicitors and sent an email demanding that Miss Ward
                 attended Court on the
                 11/11/2016
                 Again The Appellant mother stated to the Judge that she had
                 made many phone calls to other solicitors and due to the
                 case being Appeal stage no one was willing to take the
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