While ordering authorities to facilitate a meeting between former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi and their lawyers, the capital's high court specifically instructed the jailed couple's counsels not to speak about political matters after the meeting. A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on November 10 ordered the Islamabad advocate general to ensure that advocates Sardar Latif Khosa and Salman Safdar meet the PTI founder and his wife at Adiala Jail while hearing Imran and Bushra's appeals against their conviction in the £190m case. The court issued the directive at the request of Khosa and Safdar, who stated they needed to consult with their clients to argue the case on merit. In a written order regarding the November 10 proceedings, the bench comprising Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Muhammad Asif noted that the meeting the next day should last at least one hour. However, the bench also noted its expectation that after the meeting, both lawyers, "being very professional counsels," would not speak about political issues. "[The court expects that the counsel] would confine themselves only to the extent of legal issues and that no statement will be given publically or before [the] media," the order said. "In the interest of justice, at the request of learned counsel for the appellant, one week's time is granted to prepare the brief of instant appeal. Relist thereafter [on November 18]. The office shall prepare the paper books within seven days," the order added. In January this year, an accountability court in Islamabad convicted Imran Khan and his wife in the £190m case. The former PM and first lady later challenged this order in the IHC, whose division bench took up the appeals in October—eight months after filing the appeals.