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Duty of an applicant for adjournment to proffer sufficient material facts upon which the Court would proceed to exercise its discretion

Grant of adjournment as a matter of discretion

How an application for adjournment should be made

How applications for adjournment should be considered

How the discretion to grant or refuse an adjournment should be exercised

Instances when an application for adjournment will be refused

Instances when applying for adjournment does not amount to a waiver

Principles governing the grant of adjournment

Procedure to be followed after the refusal of an application for adjournment

The "7-point agenda" that a trial judge must follow in refusing an adjournment

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The law that where a suit is adjourned to a date for proceedings to be taken, it is that proceedings alone that must be taken

The rule that the court has an inherent power to adjourn the hearing of a matter

When the discretionary power to adjourn a criminal trial will be exercised

Whether a case can be reopened after it has been concluded and adjourned for judgment

Whether a court clerk or registrar has the power to adjourn a motion to another date

Whether a court must adjourn a matter where a party or counsel is ill

Whether a Judge has a discretion to refuse or grant an application for adjournment in a murder charge

Whether a Judge is obliged to grant an adjournment solely because Counsel on each side asked for it or agreed on it

Whether a letter can be used to apply for an adjournment

Whether an adjournment must be granted as a matter of course

Whether an appellate court will interfere with the trial court's refusal to grant an adjournment

Whether an application for adjournment in all cases amounts to a waiver of the right to fair hearing

Whether an application for adjournment is conclusive evidence that the applicant is not ready to proceed with the case

Whether a party can allege that he was not given opportunity to be heard where the court refused to grant unnecessary adjournments

Whether a trial court can adjourn a case to a specific date for hearing when the parties and their counsel are not present in court

Whether dates for adjournment are subject to the whims of litigants

Whether failure to grant adjournment constitutes a denial of fair hearing

Whether the cases which ought to be called on the day a court could not sit can be called on the next sitting day

Whether the court is bound by an adjourned date suggested by a party

Whether the court is obliged to adjourn a case where a party to an action before the court who was duly informed of the date fixed for hearing

Whether the court must grant an adjournment where counsel is on a national assignment

Whether the jurisdiction of judges to sit as appellate court removes their discretion to allow an adjournment in the proceedings

Whether the mere refusal by a judge to grant an application for adjournment amounts to a denial of the right to fair trial

Whether the number of previous adjournments granted influences the court’s discretion in the grant of adjournments

Whether unnecessary adjournments will be granted

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