The legal challenge by three anti-Agreement MPs who were suspended from the Ulster Unionist Party party last week has been adjourned.
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The UUP leader Mr David Trimble faces a vote of no confidence in his Upper Bann constituency next week.
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Mr Jeffrey Donaldson, Rev Martin Smyth and Mr David Burnside are seeking an injunction in Belfast High Court to overturn the decision of the party's disciplinary committee to suspend them.
They were suspended last week after they resigned the Parliamentary whip over the party's support for the Belfast Agreement.
A lawyer for the three MPs said the manner of their suspension was highly dubious and similar to "some dark doing in a UDA pub."
UUP leader Mr David Trimble will also face a vote of no confidence in his Upper Bann constituency next week.
The motion, to be debated on July 8th, was tabled amid the row between Mr Trimble and anti-Belfast Agreement Mr Donaldson in the run-up to a meeting of the party's ruling Ulster Unionist Council.
Mr Donaldson failed at the meeting to get the council to back his demand for members to reject the British and Irish government's Joint Declaration plans for the restoration of devolved government.