Adjournments

As in: Lady Hallett, presiding, kept calling short adjournments, quite possibly to clutch hold of the sal volatile bottle and give it a good sniff.

Justice Deshmukh noted that the petitioner failed to produce any statistical data to demonstrate that unreasonable adjournments were granted by the family court.

The judge, however, expressed dismay that since Nov. 22, 2022, the police lawyer had only called two witnesses, with several adjournments.

Civil judge of Narsinghgarh Kapil pointed out problems asking for what to do under such a situation when litigant demands more time leading to unnecessary adjournments.

The panel also granted adjournments to the petitioners and respondents in line with their request to ensure fair hearing.

When the matter resumed last week after a couple adjournments, Bello said the preferred custodian of the children is the mother.

However, after several adjournments without him appearing in court when service had been served on him, the prosecutor urged the court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.

Opposition benches wanted the Select Committee motion to be voted first but Chair said it would be taken up only after the debate, forcing multiple adjournments earlier in the day.

He said that no party in the case was entitled to more than three adjournments in the course of the hearing.

She told CBC News that since the trial began in July 2016, many adjournments and delays were allowed to accommodate Neurauter’s hockey schedule, something his father denies.

The court’s President, Mr Akin Akinniyi, resolved the differences between the estranged couple after several adjournments and interventions.

The protesting MPs, however, refused to return to their seats, forcing many adjournments.

Thirdly, all high courts should instruct the trial judges to deny unnecessary adjournments in cases falling under POCSO Act.

With the establishment of special courts and mandate on the judges to deliver their ruling within a specific frame of time, the issue of incessant adjournments would be addressed.

In this way, the players would never be desperately short of time, but games could also be completed more quickly, doing away with the need for adjournments (in which a game is left incomplete to be finished at a later date).