1988 Ed.] The Rules of the Supreme Court Order 34
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(2) Where the plaintiff does not, within the period fixed under paragraph (1), set the action down for trial, the defendant may set the action down for trial or may apply to the Court to dismiss the action for want of prosecution and, on the hearing of any such application, the Court may order the action to be dismissed accordingly or may make such order as it thinks just.
(3) Every order made in an action which provides for trial before a judge (otherwise than in the commercial list or in any list which may be specified for the purposes of this paragraph by directions under rule 4) shall contain an estimate of the length of the trial and, shall, subject to any such directions, specify the list in which the action is to be put.
Lodging documents when setting down (O. 34, r. 3)
3. (1) In order to set down for trial an action which is to be tried before a Judge, the party setting it down must deliver to the Registrar, by post or otherwise, a request that the action may be set down for trial, together with a bundle (for the use of the judge) consisting of one copy each of the following documents, that is to say-
(a) the writ,
(b) the pleadings (including any affidavits ordered to stand as pleadings), any request or order for particulars and the particulars given,
(c) all orders made on the summons for directions, and
(d) the requisite legal aid documents, if any.
(2) The said bundle must be bound up in the proper chronological order, save that voluntary particulars of any pleading and particulars to which Order 18, rule 12(7) applies shall be placed immediately after the pleading to which they relate.
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(3) In this rule "the requisite legal aid documents" means any documents which are required by regulations 8(7) and 13(4) of the Legal Aid Regulations made under the Legal Aid Ordinance to be (Cap. 91) filed in the Registry.
Directions relating to lists (O. 34, r. 4)
4. Nothing in this Order shall prejudice any powers of the Chief Justice to give directions—
(a) specifying the lists in which actions, or actions of any class or description, are to be set down for trial and providing for the keeping and publication of the lists;
(b) providing for the determination of a date for the trial of any action which has been set down or a date before which the trial thereof is not to take place; and
(c) as to the making of applications (whether to the Court or an officer of the Court) to fix, vacate or alter any such date, and, in particular, requiring any such application to be supported by an estimate of the length of the trial and any other relevant information.