CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
No. 3 of 1901.
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CHAPTER XXX.
VARIOUS PROVISIONS.
Sittings of the court.
686. The court may, in its discretion, appoint any day for the trial and hearing of causes and matters, as circumstances may require.
H. K. Code, s. 52 (2).
687. The sittings of the court for the trial and hearing of causes and matters shall ordinarily be public; but the court may try or hear any particular cause or matter in the presence only of the parties and their counsel and solicitors and the officers of the court.
H. K. Code, s. 52 (3).
688. Subject to any special arrangements for any particular day, the business of the day at any sitting of the court shall be taken, as nearly as circumstances permit, in the following order :--
(1) at the commencement of the sitting, judgments shall be delivered in causes or matters standing over for that purpose and appearing for judgment in the trial paper;
(2) ex parte motions or motions by consent shall then be taken in the order in which the motion papers have been filed;
(3) opposed motions on notice, and orders to show cause returnable on that day, shall then be taken, in the order in which these matters respectively stand in the trial paper; and
(4) the causes in the trial paper shall then be called on, in their order, unless the court sees fit to vary that order.
H. K. Code, s. 52 (4).
689. Every writ, summons, warrant, judgment, rule, order, notice, and other document issuing from the court shall be sealed with the seal of the court, and be returned for the purpose of being filed in the Registry.
H. K. Code, s. 96.
690.-(1) The Registrar shall keep a book called the Cause-Book, which shall contain a register of the proceedings in all actions brought in the court.
H. K. Code, s. 6.
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