"Adjournment" refers to the act of officially postponing or putting a pause to a meeting, trial, or any other scheduled event. It means that the event will stop temporarily and continue at a later time or date.
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Justice Nnamdi Dimgba made the order of indefinite
adjournment of the suit last Thursday to await the decision of the Court of Appeal on the issue of service of the suit on Akeredolu and other defendants.
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Having listened to the arguments of the counsels, Justice Abang noted that the application
for adjournment on the basis that counsel to the defence had been changed was baseless.
This will be the first public hearing on this 32 - year - old proposal since November 2014, when the Southold Town Board and the Southold Town Planning Board agreed to a Stipulation of
Adjournment in Contemplation of Settlement.
Pre-hearing conferences: for complex hearings or those with expert witnesses, consideration should be given to a pre-hearing conference where the order of witnesses can be addressed as well as other potential reasons for
adjournment requests (such as disclosure issues).
He'll have to shut off his email, cease dealing with clients and his colleagues at the firm will have to seek
adjournments on cases in court.
Therefore, the HRTO will only
grant adjournments in extraordinary circumstances such as illness of a party, witness or representative.
Back - bench MPs
seek adjournment debates in order to raise specific issues and particular concerns with Ministers on the floor of the House.
Both bills cleared the Senate during the regular session of the legislature but failed to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives before
adjournment at midnight on June 3.
The kind of condition ordered by Justice Strekaf — to maintain the status quo — was said to be common in
adjournment applications.
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However, if discussion of any inappropriate topics occurs at any meeting, all members present should openly disassociate themselves from such discussions, and if the discussions do not end immediately, the meeting should be brought to a prompt
adjournment by the person in charge of the conduct of the meeting.
Three days
before adjournment, legislative supporters of Vrdolyak livened up an otherwise mundane session by moving to preserve Kelly «s control over the park district and its thousands of patronage jobs.
Therefore, it is important that both the Prosecution and the Accused Persons or their counsels are mindful of this fact and strive to shun all forms of antics such as request for frivolous
adjournments which could lead to unnecessary delays in the trial processes.
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The end of
day adjournment debate is undertaken after all the other usual business of the House — Departmental questions, Private Member's Bills, government legislation, and Dennis Skinner roaring about «posh boys» — is over.
In his brief ruling, Justice Abang adjourned ruling on the application for
adjournment till November 3, 2017.
Although an administrative burden on tribunals, the effort and cost of providing a reminder could be repaid by averting
unnecessary adjournment requests.
The Court also rejected other procedural complaints raised by the wind opponents, who complained that they had been unfairly
denied adjournments or other procedural requests during the Environment Review Tribunal hearings.
There was no such
adjournment under s103 on which to hang the requirement of additional security, Lord Mance confirmed.
Where adjournments are required for further expert or medical evidence to arrive or be obtained, then it should be for the judge to determine what is right, just and equitable in relation to the facts and circumstances of the particular case before them.
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Throughout the proceedings, the respondent and his counsel proactively sought a speedy resolution, but the trial was rescheduled twice due to
adjournments resulting from the unavailability of counsel on specific dates.
The magistrates agreed to an eight
week adjournment in order for a psychologist to assess his fitness to plead.
Compounding the comments made in mediation, the mediator - arbitrator also scheduled the arbitration on short notice and refused to grant a 2 -
month adjournment when the mother's counsel requested it based on a previously booked trip and the need to prepare for the arbitration.
When cases involving self - represented litigants do reach trial, they tend to require
more adjournments and take longer to resolve as a result of self - represented litigants» unfamiliarity with the rules of court, the rules of evidence and the law that applies to their cases, and the results self - represented litigants achieve tend to be worse than the results they would have achieved had they had counsel.
Both Saraki, Ekweremadu and two officials of the Senate had been arraigned before a Federal High Court, while the
last adjournment of the case was to Wednesday.
The case was subsequently transferred to Justice Gummi with the agreement of both the defence and prosecuting counsel on account of
several adjournments because of the judge's ill - health.
The aid allocation would have to be approved by the Legislature before its
scheduled adjournment on Wednesday.
His words fell like cleansing rain and
adjournment soon followed, in time for the men to experience what most would remember better than any exchange around the conference table.
@HMPARTICLE: Laying charges only when there is evidence to back them up is more responsible (and approved of by judges) than accusing somebody to satisfy the police or media and then constantly asking for
adjournments because you can't support the charges.
Managed the Family Part and Civil Part motion calendar,
including adjournment requests and oral argument scheduling
There was no indication Tuesday morning about when Democratic leaders may attempt to to vote on a revised budget plan, but the legislature only has until midnight Wednesday to pass a budget before it's mandatory
adjournment deadline.
Indeed, the council was on the very point of final
adjournment without having taken any positive action.
The governor proposed his first version of a two - year budget in February, but lawmakers were unable to agree on any version of a $ 40 billion - plus tax - and - spending plan by their regular session
mandatory adjournment on June 7.
He also supported the call for Daura's arrest and called for
indefinite adjournment of the trial pending when Dasuki's motion would be determined by the Court of Appeal.
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