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I feel like there is more to this than meets the eye.

Sending a Solicitor Advocate or a Solicitor who is a qualified advocate in the lower courts but not in the Crown Court (if no Solicitor Advocate was available) would clearly have been the sensible and blindingly obvious thing to do.

Which makes me wonder if there is some missing information here. Perhaps the firm had no one available due to other commitments and had sought an adjournment which was refused?

However, let us not forget that you can instruct a Solicitor Advocate who works for another firm just like you can a Barrister - so should exhaust that option as well.