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A new date was set when again you ordered the solicitors to attend and had also contacted the
new company Miss Ward worked for. Later that day Miss ward contacted me, and we meet to
go over my son’s bundle to check the documents and see if there were any missing
documents left that needed to be added. Miss ward believed I had covered all the documents.
Each time this was in court after the 26/09/2016 I informed you I was having a great deal of
trouble finding a new solicitor to take this case on due to it being at appeal stage. On the
19/12/2016 I wrote a letter to you saying I had tried everything and could not get a new
solicitor and asking if the court could help. I got a reply from you from the court on the
21/12/2016 stating.
Good afternoon
Your emailed was placed before HHJ Pawlak who replies:
'We cannot help
1. The Appellants solicitor came off the record at your request not at the direction of the
Court
2. This is the Appellants appeal and it first came before the Court in January 2016
3. The Appellant has had long enough to find a solicitor and/or counsel
4. The Court cannot force a solicitor to act against his will for a client.'
Regards
Susan Sloan Support Services Wood Green Crown Court Woodall House London N22 5LF
0208-826-4121
susan.sloan@hmcts.gsi.gov.uk
Point 1: is incorrect my son did not ask for his solicitors to be taken of record.
Point 2: I believe is also incorrect as this was listed before the court on 26/10/2015.
Point 3: I was doing all I could to find a solicitor and/or counsel. I also cannot force a
solicitor and/or counsel to take an appeal case on and I could not afford to pay for one if I
could have paid for one, I would have done so long ago.
On the 12/01/2017 late in the day as I did not give up trying to get a new solicitor to take this
case on I was given a number for a company called MK-Law I broke down on the phone to
them as they were the 1st solicitors who even wanted to hear about the case after I said it was
at appeal stage.
They were willing to act as long as legal aid was put in place. I got an email sent to them on
the 13/01/2017 re transferring legal aid as I believed it was still in place with
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the old solicitors from what I had been told by the court. They were also going to need time
to get all the bundles and go over them and meet with my son. I do not have an office or an
office printer to copy all the bundles and I was only sent one copy from the Respondent due
to all the issues with the bundles.
On the 16/01/2017 I know that MK-Law contacted the court about legal aid.
On the 17/01/2017 the appeal hearing was due to start and MK-law sent a Barrister to the
court to address the matters of legal aid and ask for an court adjournment so they had time to
get the bundles in order have time to go over them and meet with my son and deal with the
appeal in the correct way how it should be done.
There were issues with legal aid, and it was said it was granted but the old solicitors were
saying it was revoked Legal aid was of little help as they could not say if it had been revoked
or not.