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(eng): We prove the existence of minimisers for a family of models related to the single-slip-to-single-plane relaxation of single-crystal, strain-gradient elastoplasticity with L p -hardening penalty. In these relaxed models, where only one slip-plane normal can be activated at each material point, the main challenge is to show that the energy of geometrically necessary dislocations is lower-semicontinuous along bounded-energy sequences which satisfy the single-plane condition, meaning precisely that this side condition should be preserved in the weak L p -limit. This is done with the aid of an ‘exclusion’ lemma of Conti & Ortiz, which essentially allows one to put a lower bound on the dislocation energy at interfaces of (single-plane) slip patches, thus precluding fine phase-mixing in the limit. Furthermore, using div-curl techniques in the spirit of Mielke & Müller, we are able to show that the usual multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient into plastic and elastic parts interacts with weak convergence and the single-plane constraint in such a way as to guarantee lower-semicontinuityo fthe(polyconvex)elasticenergy,andhencethetotalelasto-plasticenergy, givensufficient(p > 2) hardening, thus delivering the desired result.