Where an appellant fails to appear at a show cause hearing claiming ill health without medical evidence, a springing order requiring the filing of a medical affidavit within a specified time is an appropriate procedural response, failing which the appeal will be dismissed. The court confirmed that when assessing grounds of appeal filed by self-represented litigants, the court must be alert to the possibility that beneath inadequately expressed material there may lurk an arguable case, but after making all due allowances, grounds that do not allege comprehensible error will not survive a show cause application.
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