A notice of discontinuance filed in the name of a child appellant for whom no litigation representative had been appointed is not a deliberate and informed act, enlivening the court's power to reinstate the child as an appellant, but the Authority's failure to separately analyse the impact of parental detention on a young child does not constitute jurisdictional error where no such claim was clearly raised on the materials before it.
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