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ENCLOSURE
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Rec? Ice 18 MAY 503
Supreme Court.
Hong Kong, 27th March, 1899.
I have to ask that Your Excellency will be good enough to give your favourable consideration to the following matter.
2. The procedure of the Supreme Court in its original jurisdiction is mainly regulated by the Code of Civil Procedure of 1873. This code, although it has proved on the whole an excellent body of law, was from the first defective in not embodying in itself the whole of the law relating to practice and procedure. I append a memorandum containing a list of the Ordinances, other than the Code, which are still in force in the Colony. It not unfrequently happens that points of practice are raised under these Ordinances, and much difficulty is felt in reconciling their provisions with those of the Code.
3. As the result of nearly three years' experience of the working of the Court, I have come to the conclusion that the time has arrived for a revision of the Civil procedure of the Court. Accordingly, with the concurrence of Mr. Justice Wise, a notice was issued on the 8th instant to the members...
His Excellency
Sir HENRY A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G.
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