(13 Nov 2006) SHOTLIST 1. Set up shot of lawyer rep­re­sent­ing Madon­na, Allen Chin­u­la 2. SOUND­BITE (En­glish) Allen Chin­u­la, lawyer: "The legal bat­tle start­ed the day after the adop­tion pro­ceed­ings. Ob­vi­ous­ly we ap­plied to the court for an adop­tion order on be­half of our clients. After pre­sent­ing the case the court de­cid­ed to give an in­ter­im order for cus­tody and to have the mat­ter re­viewed after 18 months. All that went very well, but the fol­low­ing day, which must have been the 12th or the 13th, that's when we also read in the media that the civil so­ci­ety was going to get an in­junc­tion against the adop­tion." 3. Pan from lap­top com­put­er to Chin­u­la work­ing 4. SOUND­BITE (En­glish) Allen Chin­u­la, lawyer: "At that time there was a change of legal prac­ti­tion­ers, so the court de­cid­ed to give the in­com­ing lawyer enough time for him to pre­pare his ar­gu­ments. That has been done. On the 3rd of Novem­ber, Fri­day last week, we were served with (in­audi­ble) ar­gu­ments, so that's where we are pro­ceed­ing from to­mor­row." 5. Close-up of Chin­u­la work­ing on lap­top com­put­er 6. SOUND­BITE (En­glish) Allen Chin­u­la, lawyer: "Let me men­tion that, in­for­mal­ly we have been in­formed that the women lawyers as­so­ci­a­tion will be pulling out. Their pres­i­dent phoned me some time last week, to say when the court re­con­venes on the 13th, they may be mak­ing an ap­pli­ca­tion to with­draw as ap­pli­cants." 7. Chin­u­la read­ing pa­pers at desk STO­RY­LINE The lawyer act­ing on be­half of US singer Madon­na in her adop­tion of a year old Malaw­ian boy said court pro­ceed­ings had been de­layed due to a change in legal prac­ti­tion­ers. Allen Chin­u­la said the ini­tial ap­pli­ca­tion of an adop­tion order on Oc­to­ber 12 "went very well." He said he only learnt of the planned ob­jec­tions in the media the fol­low­ing day. "At that time there was a change of legal prac­ti­tion­ers, so the court de­cid­ed to give the in­com­ing lawyer enough time for him to pre­pare his ar­gu­ments. That has been done," Chin­u­la said. Madon­na and film­mak­er hus­band Guy Ritchie have been given tem­po­rary cus­tody as a step to­ward adopt­ing David Banda, who has spent most of his young life in an or­phan­age after his moth­er died of com­pli­ca­tions from giv­ing birth. His fa­ther has said he was too poor to raise the boy on his own and that he wants the Ritchies to adopt him. Chin­u­la spoke to AP Tele­vi­sion as a Human rights group pre­pared to ap­pear be­fore a court in Malawi on Mon­day to dis­pute the in­ter­im adop­tion by Madon­na and her hus­band. The Human Rights Con­sul­ta­tive Com­mit­tee, an um­brel­la of civil so­ci­ety groups, ar­gues that local Malaw­ian rules sur­round­ing the adop­tion were flout­ed dur­ing the pro­cess of Madon­na's in­ter­im adop­tion and that it could set a prece­dent for human traf­fick­ing. Madon­na has in­sist­ed she had done noth­ing wrong through­out the pro­cess and has not used her celebri­ty to in­flu­ence Malaw­ian of­fi­cials. Find out more about AP Archive: http://​www.​aparchive.​com/​HowWeWork Twit­ter: https://​twitter.​com/​AP_​Archive Face­book: https://​www.​facebook.​com/​APArchives ​​ In­sta­gram: https://​www.​instagram.​com/​APNews/​ You can li­cense this story through AP Archive: http://​www.​aparchive.​com/​metadata/​youtube/​c4cb23d3fe0f3b777d7d4b731f39ac8c