For its first three-year phase, the Panel expects to spending the first year consulting, observing and reviewing in order to develop a set of recommendations for biodiversity-responsible oil spill clean-up.
Adjourning the hearing until 29 July, when the panel will consider sanctions, panel chair Judith Worthington said it was necessary to impose an interim suspension order to "protect the public and maintain public confidence in the profession".
"There is no reason why taxpayers should be required to pay transaction fees in order to file their returns electronically, " she told a Congressional panel last month.
But lawyers for the group asked Judge Mackie QC to delay their court application in the light of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's decision last month to order a full review of the JCPCT recommendations by the Independent Review Panel (IRP).