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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