1. ORDER This is an application for Transfer of Application No. 131 of 1973, under section 34 of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, which is pending in the learned Labour Court No. V. The main ground for transfer is that the learned Labour Court on the 20th of July 1973 refused adjournment when the matter came for hearing and the General Secretary of the Union asked for adjournment on the ground that his Representative was appearing before the Labour Appellate Tribunal. I called for remarks of the learned Court on this allegation. All that remarks discloses is that no formal application was made by the General Secretary of the Union for adjournment. It is true no formal application was made but only an oral request was made for adjournment. The learned Court was not bound to adjourn the proceeding. He should have in all fairness asked the General Secretary to go and bring his Representative within half an hour or an hour to conduct the cross-examination. If the General Secretary failed to comply with the order of the learned Presiding Officer the Court would have been justified in closing the cross-examination. In the light of the other circumstances mentioned in the application I think omission on the part of the learned Court is substantial ground to raise a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the applicant that he would not get justice from the Court. Mr. Warsi, the learned Representative for the opposite-party contended that an application should have been made for adjournment. I have already said when the matter is fixed before a Court and for some reason the Represen-1 tative of the party is not available the party will be justified to make oral request to adjourn the case. In these circumstances I will transfer thel matter from Court No. V to Court No. IV. The Court No. IV to proceed in the matter from the stage the case has reached before the leamed Labour Court No. V.