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Grant of adjournment as a matter of discretion

How applications for adjournment should be considered

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

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

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 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 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 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 must grant an adjournment where counsel is on a national assignment

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

Whether unnecessary adjournments will be granted

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