Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the refusal to postpone the hearing had become moot after the hearing took place
Extracted holding
Yes. Since the contested hearing had already been held, the appeal no longer had any practical purpose and had to be noted as moot.
Extracted reasoning
The appellate court found that the hearing of 6 October 2016 had already occurred when it ruled on 7 October 2016, so the appeal had become without object.