PRACTICE MANUAL OF THE SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT
CHAPTER NINE: MOTION COURT
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9.15 POSTPONEMENTS
- A motion, whether opposed or unopposed, will generally not be postponed to
a specific date. It will either be postponed sine die or removed from the roll.
- Where a motion has to be postponed to a specific date (eg rehabilitation
for which notice has been given) such date, in the absence of urgency, must
be to a date at least two weeks hence.
- Prior to allocation and in respect of unallocated matters, the clerk
of the senior motion court judge for the particular week must be informed
in person or telephonically immediately it becomes known that an opposed
matter is to be postponed.
- Subsequent to the allocation of an opposed matter to a particular judge
for hearing, the clerk of the judge to whom the matter has been allocated,
must be informed in person or telephonically immediately it becomes known
that a matter is to be postponed.
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