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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
FAMILY DIVISION
MR REGISTRAR ADAMS
(Registrar of Civil Appeals)

		Royal Courts of Justice Strand London WC2 Wednesday, 7th February 2001

1. LORD JUSTICE THORPE:This is an absolutely hopeless application to the full court to review a decision made by the Registrar of Civil Appeals on 26th September 1995. In a careful and patient judgment he explained precisely why he was refusing an extension of time to Mrs B to appeal care orders in respect of three of her children made by Mr Justice Cazalet on 28th September 1993. As the Registrar pointed out when he had the case, the applicant was already over a year out of time. Now, when we sit to review his decision, another five years has passed. The orders made by Mr Justice Cazalet were made in the exercise of a wide discretion and made without any apparent error of law. The Registrar pointed that reality out to Mrs B and said that the consequence was that she really had not the slightest prospects of success in bringing an appeal to this court. That remains just as true today.
2. The application is, on any view, quite hopeless and we have no function other than to dismiss it and to bring to a close the relationship between Mrs B and this court. If she wishes to seek a remedy elsewhere, that is entirely a matter for her.
3. LORD JUSTICE BUXTON:I agree.
Order:application dismissed.