Retired Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Ian Farlam, who is leading the commission of inquiry, said it would resume on 22 October.
Joseph Chigona told the AP news agency the case involving 3-year-old Chifundo James would come up before three Supreme Court of Appeal judges.
Instead, they will get a new trial at the Supreme Court of Appeal "as if it was a trial for the first time, " the agency said.
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But the Supreme Court of Appeal disagreed.
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Our correspondent says that recent rulings from the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal have quashed the whole impeachment process, branding it "unconstitutional".
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that impeachment will have unpredictable consequences because the government is pressing ahead with it in defiance of orders from both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.
The Supreme Court can reconsider Court of Appeal decisions if the justices are convinced there is a " point of law of general public importance".
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On Wednesday, the three who founded a company while they were all students at Harvard called ConnectU told a California court that they had decided not to pursue an appeal to the Supreme Court of a ruling that held the 2008 settlement should stand.
EchoStar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) lost another court skirmish this week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider EchoStar's appeal of a lower court ruling that it cannot beam local broadcast channels to a nationwide audience.
The Administration is currently petitioning the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of the D.
But campaigners lost a series of court battles against the plans, with the High Court rejecting their claims the council's decision to close the libraries was "flawed and unlawful", the Court of Appeal upholding that ruling and the Supreme Court refusing the right for a further appeal.
Now he put that decision on hold while Research In Motion appealed, but in 2004, a federal appeals court upheld the judgment against Research In Motion, and now it's on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Court of Appeal upheld the ruling last year and the Supreme Court has now refused permission for a further appeal because "the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance".
Assange sought refuge on Tuesday, five days after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal of the decision to send him to Sweden -- his last option in British courts.
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He sought refuge at the embassy five days after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal of the decision to send him to Sweden -- his last option in British courts.
Julian Assange sought refuge at the embassy five days after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal of the decision to send him to Sweden, his last option in British courts.
In a case from New York ( analyzed here in December), the Second U.S. Circuit Court of appeals struck down the relevant provision of DOMA. The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted an appeal, which it is expected to decide early this summer.
In March, the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal against extradition and he was refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The 2:1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also might set up yet another fight between the highest court of appeal for patents and the U.S. Supreme Court, which forced the Federal Circuit to reconsider Myriad after reversing the lower court on another landmark case this year.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of Costco v.
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear an appeal of a case involving affirmative action only nine years after it approved limited application of the race-based policy in higher education.
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After the UK Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right of appeal was incompatible with their human rights, the government has proposed a system under which they could be removed if they proved they no longer posed a risk to the public.
Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right of appeal against being on the register was incompatible with their human rights and the law was changed so sex offenders could ask their local police force to remove them from the register 15 years after they are released from prison.
However, in a written judgement published on Wednesday morning, the panel of five Supreme Court judges unanimously agreed to grant Lloyds Banking Group's appeal against the Court of Session's ruling.
An almost automatic right of appeal clogs the system further, with further appeal possible to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on an appeal of Sotomayor's decision by the end of its current term in June.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act -- again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction -- eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
His lawyers earlier vowed to take their fight all the way to the European Court of Human Rights if the Supreme Court denies the appeal.
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The two situations in which the Supreme Court is most likely to accept the type of discretionary appeal known as a writ of certiorari are when the circuits below "split, " or when a circuit has issued a bad ruling that will have serious implications for federal law.
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