Buswell spared election week court hearing WEST Australian treasurer Troy Buswell looks set to be spared the distraction of an election-week hearing into his $3 million defamation case against his ex-lover Adele Carles. At a Supreme Court hearing, lawyers for Mr Buswell said they intended to expand the defamation claim against the former Greens-turned-independent MP, and so needed to change the timetable of the case. Lawyers for Ms Carles wanted to proceed as planned on March 6, but Justice Rene Le Miere said because new claims and counter claims would need to be filed, the planned hearing two days later may serve no purpose. The case was adjourned until later on Thursday. The court action was sparked by a newspaper article in which Ms Carles claimed Mr Buswell had been drunk and had behaved inappropriately towards seafood empire boss Nick Kailis at a 2011 Christmas party. She then used the social media platform Twitter to send a series of highly personal tweets about Mr Buswell, which have since been deleted.