The jury in the trial of the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Seán FitzPatrick, has been sent away for the day and asked to return on Monday week as legal issues are "thrashed out".
Mr FitzPatrick is accused of misleading the bank's auditors about multi-million euro loans to him and people connected with him and furnishing false information in relation to the loans between 2002 and 2007.
Mr FitzPatrick, who is 68, and from Whitshed Road in Greystones, pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of making misleading, false or deceptive statements to the bank's auditors.
He has also denied six charges of furnishing false information.
Judge John Aylmer told the jury in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a further issue had arisen which had been unforeseen.
He said this had led to a change in plan in relation to the order in which witnesses were to be called.
He said it was not possible to make progress today.
After further discussions, Judge Aylmer told the jurors it had always been anticipated there were going to be three significant periods where the jury would not be involved and legal issues would have to be thrashed out.
He said he had been told this second legal issue would take a week. He asked the jury to return on Monday 14 November.
The prosecution case is that Mr FitzPatrick was responsible for artificially reducing loans to him and people connected with him at Anglo's year end and failing to disclose this to the auditors or in Anglo's financial statements.
The court heard the loans grew from around €10m in 2002 to €100m in 2007.
