Question: 3. After pleading 'not guilty' to the charges. Two state witnesses are led in evidence. The court sets down the case to a different date

3. After pleading 'not guilty' to the charges. Two state witnesses are led in evidence. The court sets down the case to a different date for further hearing. Briefly explain whether the 'setting down' of the case to a different date as explained above constitutes a postponement or an adjournment (and why you say so). (3) (NB: the question does not require you to provide a comparison between adjournments and postponements, but to give a straight answer. Please note that you will not be awarded any marks for merely expressing the difference between adjournments and postponements) 4. D is subsequently arrested after the plea ('not guilty') of A, B and C as set out in (3), above. Briefly evaluate whether the joinder of D is still possible, under these circumstances

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