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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 8, 1927.

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Schedule A.

Rules as to Printing.

I. All Records and other proceedings in Appeals or other matters pending before His Majesty in Council or the Judicial Committee which are required by the above Rules to be printed shall be printed in the form known as Demy Quarto.

II. The size of the paper used shall be such that the sheet, when folded and trimmed, will be 11

inches in height and 83 inches in width.

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III. The type to be used in the text shall be Pica type, but Long Primer shall be used in printing accounts, tabular matter, and notes. The number of lines in each page of Pica type shall be 47 or thereabouts, and every tenth line shall be numbered in the margin.

IV. Records shall be arranged in two parts in the same volume, where practicable, viz.

Part I. The pleadings and proceedings, the transcript of the evidence of the witnesses, the

Judgments, Decrees, &c., of the Courts below, down to the Order admitting the Appeal. Part II. The exhibits and documents,

V. The Index to Part I shall be in chronological order, and shall be placed at the beginning of the volume.

The Index to Part II shall follow the order of the exhibit mark, and shall be placed immediately after the Index to Part I.

VI. Part I shall be arranged strictly in chronological order, i.e., in the same order as the index.

Part II shall be arranged in the most convenient way for the use of the Judicial Committee, as the circumstances of the case require. The documents shall be printed as far as suitable in chronological order, mixing Plaintiff's and Defendant's documents together when necessary. Each document shall show its exhibit mark, and whether it is a Plaintiff's or Defendant's document (unless this is clear from the exhibit mark) and in all cases documents relating to the same matter, such as

(a) a series of correspondence, or

(b) proceedings in a suit other than the one under appeal,

shall be kept together. The order in the Record of the documents in Part II will probably be different from the order of the Index, and the proper page number of each document shall be inserted in the printed Index.

The parties will be responsible for arranging Record in proper order for the Judicial Committee, and in difficult cases Counsel may be asked to settle it.

VII. The documents in Part I shall be numbered consecutively.

The documents in Part II shall not be numbered, apart from the exhibit mark.

VIII. Each document shall have a heading which shall consist of the number or exhibit mark and the description of the document in the Index, without the date.

IX. Each document shall have a marginal note which shall be repeated on each page over which the document extends, riz. :—

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PART I.

(a) Where the case has been before more than one Court, the short none of the Court shall first appear.

Where the case has been before only one Court, the name of the Court need not appear.

(7) The marginal note of the document shall then appear consisting of the number and the descrip- tion of the document in the Index, with the date, except in the case of oral evidence.

(c). In the case of oral evidence, "Plaintiff's evidence” or “Defendant's evidence" shall appear beneath the name of the Court, and then the marginal note consisting of the namber in the Index and "re-examinatioa," as the case may be. the witness's na:ne, with "examination," "cross-examination,” or

PART II.

The word Exhibits" shall first appear.