PRISACARIU v ROMANIAN JUDICIAL AUTHORITY

MRS JUSTICE WHIPPLE: 1 This is the hearing which was anticipated to be the appeal hearing in this case but I had a message first thing this morning to say that the appellant’s counsel, Mr Henley, has been unexpectedly taken unwell and in the circumstances there is an unopposed application to adjourn before me and I do adjourn this case. 2 In some ways that is convenient, because it gives the court the opportunity to direct an updated s.7 report going to the circumstances for the appellant’s daughter, who is two years old. I am going to direct that report by 7 January 2021 and that any further evidence on which the appellant seeks to rely must be served by the same date, 7 January 2021, together with an application for the appellant to be permitted to rely on that evidence. The appellant then to serve any updating submissions or skeleton by 21 January 2021, the respondent to serve any updating submissions or skeleton by 4 February 2021. This case should then be listed for the appeal hearing on the first open date after 14 February with a time estimate of two hours, giving half a day’s reading to the judge in advance of that hearing. 3 I also direct that the appellant should refile the skeleton dated 26 October 2021 simply to correct what looks like a problem with some of the text having been omitted from para.39. __________