I therefore intend to adjourn the meeting now.

(c) To adjourn the debate on the question under discussion

(c) To adjourn the debate on the item under discussion

(c) To adjourn the debate on the item under discussion

Does any delegation wish to take the floor at this stage before we adjourn?

The Chairman If no delegation wishes to make further comments at this stage, I shall now adjourn the meeting.

So I now adjourn the formal plenary and I ask delegates to reconvene in the informal session within three minutes.

I shall adjourn the meeting once again just for a few moments this time to escort the Minister from the Council Chamber.

The Chairman We still have to deal with cluster 7, but we have little time and will soon have to adjourn the meeting.

Therefore, I would now like to adjourn the formal plenary meeting of the Conference and resume our meeting in an informal format five minutes from now.

It considers that the author has not substantiated, for purposes of admissibility, that failure to adjourn the trial was manifestly incompatible with the interests of justice.

If there is no delegate at this stage wishing to take the floor, I think our business for today has been concluded, and I adjourn the meeting.

In that case, I am going to adjourn this meeting, and I invite you for an informal plenary meeting, which will be convened in five minutes from now.

Before I adjourn the meeting, I should like once again, on behalf of the General Assembly, to convey our most sincere condolences to the peoples and countries affected by this earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented proportions.

The Acting President Before I adjourn the meeting, I would like to inform the General Assembly that the President of the Assembly has received a note from the Chairman of the Sixth Committee requesting that the Committee be authorized to continue its work until the end of November.

The Court s President complied with the lawyer s motion to adjourn the proceedings until the Constitutional Council ruled on the constitutionality of the laws under which Chirac is charged. We will find out in the coming weeks whether the Cour de Cassation (Court of Final Appeal) will agree to refer the matter to the Council.

But nothing has done as much to cement the QPC s standing as the recent motion submitted by a lawyer in the ongoing criminal proceedings against former President Jacques Chirac, who is charged with having created fictitious jobs at the Paris City Council when he was mayor. The Court s President complied with the lawyer s motion to adjourn the proceedings until the Constitutional Council ruled on the constitutionality of the laws under which Chirac is charged.

3.5 The author claims that his right under article 14, paragraph 3 (b), to communicate with counsel was violated, as he could not consult his lawyer during incommunicado detention, at a critical state of the proceedings, and because the trial judge did not adjourn the trial upon disbarring the author's lawyer and appointing an ex officio defence counsel on 23 March 2000, thereby denying him adequate time to communicate with his new counsel.

5.6 As regards the author's claim that article 14, paragraph 3 (b), was also violated because the trial judge did not adjourn the trial after having replaced his lawyer by an ex officio counsel, thereby denying him adequate time to consult with his new counsel to prepare his defence, the Committee notes that the material before it does not reveal that the author, or his new counsel, requested an adjournment on grounds of insufficient time to prepare the defence.