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Ivo RIGBY, Senior Puisne Judge.
A. D. SCHOLES, Puisne Judge.
W. A. BLAIR-Kerr, Puisne Judge.
G. G. BRIGGS,
Puisne Judge.
R. H. MILLS-OWENS, Puisme Judge.
A. HUGGINS, Puisne Judge.
T. CREEDON, Pulsne Judge.
OSWALD CHEUNG.
Member.
R. F. G. DENNIS, Member.
Pursuant to section 38(6)(d) of the Supreme Court Ordinance
I hereby certify that the foregoing rules have been made by the requisite quorum of the Rules Committee under and by virtue of section 38(6) of that Ordinance.
Dated this 27th day of January 1968.
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3. Rule 3 amends Ordør 12, rule 7(1) of the principal rules so that the Registrar, as well as the Court, may give conditional leave for an appearance to be entered. Rule 4 makes a consequential amendment This now follows the English practice.
Rule 5 amends Order 37. rule 1(3) of the principal rules by deleting the reference to Order 12, rule 15, which latter rule of the English rules has not been adopted in the Hong Kong rules as it refers to the powers of masters in Chancery proceedings. In Hong Kong such proceedings are usually dealt with by the judges.
3. Rule 6 amends...
(4) Part I of the First Schedule to Order 62 of the principal rules by-
(i) adding a new Tom. 60% to cover charges for copying work;
and
(ii) altering in Irem 117 the rate to be charged by solicitors for attendance at the bearing of any trial before the Court;
(b) paragraph 2(3) of Part II of that Schedule so that when counsel attends before either a judge or the Registrar in chambers he will only be allowed his costs upon a certificate being obtained that the attendance was proper in the circumstances of the case. The cost of more than one counsel may be allowed, either before a judge or the Registrar. In these respects the English practice is not being followed in that in England, no certificate is required for attendance before a judge cxcept where there is more than opc counsel, and the costs of the attendance of more than one counsel before a master or registrar are not allowed,
6. Rule 7(8) provides for the conduct of proceedings on references to the Registrar of certain specified cases (usually the assessment of damages) in the Admiralty jurisdiction, thereby bringing the principal rules into line with corresponding provisions in the English Rules.
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The opportunity has also been taken of correcting typographical crrors and omissions.
(Secretariat GR 39/2961/4611)
Explanatory Nore.
Chief Justice,
(This Now is not part of the rules, but is intended
to indicate their general purport).
These rules amend the revised Rules of the Supreme Court which
came into operation on the 1st of September 1967.
2. Rule 2, together with rule 8(a) and (5), corrects an error re- garding the forms of writ.