“An application judge’s discretion with respect to the granting or refusing of an adjournment is broad, and appellate courts should be reluctant to intervene: Graham v. Vandersloot, 2012 ONCA 60, 180 O.R. (3d) 641, at para. 5. In declining to grant an adjournment, a judge may rely on a range of factors, including a lack of compliance with prior court orders, previous adjournments that have been granted, previous peremptory hearing dates, the desirability of having the matter decided and a finding that an applicant is seeking to manipulate the system by “orchestrating delay”: see The Law Society of Upper Canada v. Igbinosun, 2009 ONCA 484, 96 O.R. (3d) 138, at para. 37. In Igbinosun, Weiler J.A. added an important caveat, that denying an adjournment solely because a hearing has been designated peremptory may not be appropriate; at para. 43. See also Conway (Re), 2016 ONCA 918, at para. 24.”
