Eamon Dillon
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And he says, no, but he says, I'm quite happy.
That's the knowledge that I'm changing solicitor.
So he had a new firm now who've come in
And what happened this week was they were making an application for free legal aid, which there is a free legal aid scheme for proceeds of crime cases.
Like there is a standard of what they call exceptional circumstances.
It's not a given.
It's not like a criminal case where it's a fairly low bar to qualify for free legal aid in comparison.
Whereas here you have to make a specific requirement.
is to make a specific request, and sometimes it's only in relation to a certain part of the case.
It mightn't be, so if you had four or five houses that had been taken by cab, the only one, the chances are, if you do get free legal aid, it'll relate to one that is possibly your family home, and otherwise you won't, you're having a chance.
And that's the way the law is being interpreted.
So in this case,
We haven't actually heard the details fully, but because this was a free legal aid application, we got a little bit of insight.
So it's two houses that are being targeted by CAB.
One of them is on High Road and the other is at Cornmarket Row.
Now he completely, he says he's got nothing to do with the Hyde Park, sorry, the Hyde Road property.
And so basically there's no defense for that.
So that was kind of an easy one, I suppose, for the judge to decide on that.
The other house was bought for 45,000 originally, according to some of the details that were heard in court.
And that his case to defend it is going to be that it was his grandmother who gave him the money and she had money for him while he was in prison between 2005 and 2011.