While everyone knew it would be a tough session, what transpired was so grim that it left cabinet ministers shocked and caused others to harden their resolve against the deal.
He said the courts had held as unenforceable the old code's call for the removal from office of public officials who disclosed what transpired in executive sessions.
"Whether it is good or wise or ethical to divulge what transpired in executive session is one question.
This was perhaps in response to my own experiences as an undergraduate student, where I was frequently at a loss to express what had transpired in my class sessions or what the point had been.
With the principal negotiators leaving New York for the holidays, it appeared that a bargaining session would not transpire until after Christmas.
"I would say 70percentt of commissioners around the state were absolutely frustrated over what transpired" in this past legislative session, he said.
Before we could talk about the details of the most contentious policy deliberation by the more than 3,500 African National Congress delegates, we had to clear the air about what actually transpired in some of the closed sessions.
As the tourists went through the motions in what transpired to be a glorified net session at Warner Park, news broke that the managing director of England cricket had been sacked.
But what transpired for the capacity crowd, from an English perspective, was close to three sessions of slightly zombified cricket as India slowly tightened an already vice-like grip with Virat Kohli's 23rd Test century.
Mr Carpenter said the Ga-Rankuwa court did not have the capacity to contain the 270 accused in a single session and the men who appeared in court would inform their colleagues of what transpired.
At the beginning of each open-ended scenario session, the participants were given a narrative framing of the context of the scenario that they were taking part in, beyond that in the introductory session in which they were told the time of day, and what had immediately transpired before the beginning of the scenario.
