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That's all well and good, but if the Court lists on a date when Counsel on the case has been booked on an earlier matter and the Court is asked to vacate and relist to ensure continuity of Counsel with the obvious benefits, Judges will usually refuse on the grounds that any Counsel can pick up the papers and run the case! And whilst in family cases such a request can be made by letter, in civil cases judges will usually insist that an application is made with the fee being paid before they consider ( and then reject) the application!