Then his office announced that he was returning $14,500 to the government for nights he had spent in Indiana hotel rooms during adjournments — a technical oversight of a Senate expenses rule, but one more reminder of his long time away.
I took my lunch quietly with members of the Biko family's legal team, and loitered uneasily during adjournments in an outside passageway, eavesdropping on the policemen who were Mr. Biko's captors in his final days as they fine-tuned the testimony they were to give in court.
Speaking today, however, one of the appointed lawyers, Mounir Ballal, said Habré had refused to see or even communicate with them during the adjournment.
Roux says that during the adjournment they checked on the electrical cord that Nel had asked about, and whether it could be extended or not.
Oscar Pistorius has been accused of trying to intimidate a friend of Reeva Steenkamp by turning to her in court and asking: "How can you sleep at night?" The South African Paralympian who is on trial for Steenkamp's murder, flatly denied speaking to Kim Myers but witnesses, including a police officer, claimed they heard Pistorius as he left the dock during an adjournment.
Aside from the fact that Congress has never enacted any statute authorizing any officer or agent of either House to receive for it bills returned by the President during its adjournment, and that there is no rule to that effect in either House, the delivery of the bill to such officer or agent, even if authorized by Congress itself, would not comply with the constitutional mandate.
We have taken the opportunity to consider all of them during the adjournment.
The tribunal chairman said during an adjournment it was discovered that the panel member had turned 70 and had not been re-appointed by the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) Minister, Stephen Farry.
"This is about whether the executive branch of government can conduct policy and withhold information without judicial oversight," Fernandes told VICE News during an adjournment in federal court proceedings.
The next day I flew to Barcelona and Boris showed the magical square to the spectators during the adjournment long before Kasparov could perform it on the chessboard.
During an adjournment, family members could be seen speaking to his lawyers.
