Pamela Izevebkhai, who is fighting a bid to deport her and her two daughters, has been told by the Supreme Court to have new lawyers in place to deal with her deportation challenge by 28 May.
Ms Izevebkhai is looking for new lawyers after it was revealed that documentation used to support her original claim to stay here had been forged.
The Sligo-based woman had failed in a number of High Court bids to prevent the deportation of her and her two daughters aged six and seven.
This led to the intervention last November of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which got the Government to postpone any moves to deport them.
In March, she acknowledged some documents supplied to the court in support of her action were forged.
However, she stood over her claim she had had a baby daughter, Elizabeth, who died from blood loss as a result of FGM.
She said her husband, who is in Nigeria, had admitted to her he obtained fake documents after the doctor who had treated Elizabeth demanded a substantial payment in exchange for the genuine papers.
Following this, the State applied to the Supreme Court to have the case dismissed claiming it had proceeded 'on a lie that is so fundamental' that it should be struck out.
The case was adjourned until today to allow Ms Ms Izevebkhai to get new lawyers after her legal team applied to come off-record.
Today, Chief Justice John Murray was told that while she had spoken to a number of solicitors and was now dealing with one in particular, none was in place as of yet.
Hugh Mohan SC, for the State, said they were anxious to have their application to dismiss the proceedings heard as soon as possible.
Mr Justice Murray told Ms Izevbekhai, through her previous solicitor, Gabriel Toolan, who is waiting to come off-record until a new lawyer is in place, that she must take all steps to advance the matter.
He adjourned the case to 28 May and said that should be enough time for a new solicitor to be in place and for any affidavits from Ms Izevekhai to be sworn.
