THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 8, 1927.
rearrange copies of the Record for the use of the Judicial Committee and the other parties. In the event of the parties being unable to agree, the matter shall be referred to the Registrar of the Privy Council who, if he thinks fit, may require the parties to attend before the Judicial Committee for directions.
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Number of
copies to be transmitted, where Record printed
13. Where the Record is printed abroad, the Registrar shall, at the ex- pense of the Appellant, transmit to the Registrar of the Privy Council 40 copies of such Record, one of which copies he shall certify to be correct by signing his name on, or initialling, every eighth page thereof and by affixing abroad. thereto the seal, if any, of the Court appealed from.
14. Where the Record is to be printed in England, the Registrar shall, at the expense of the Appellant, transmit to the Registrar of the Privy Council one certified copy of such Record, together with an index of all the papers and exhibits in the case. No other certified copies of the Record shall be transmitted to the Agent in England by or on behalf of the parties to the Appeal.
15. Where part of the Record is printed abroad and part is to be printed in England, Rules 13 and 14 shall, as far as practicable, apply to such parts as are printed abroad and such as are to be printed in England respectively.
16. The reasons given by the judge, or any of the judges, for or against any judgments pronounced in the course of the proceedings out of which the Appeal arises, shall by such judge or judges be communicated in writing to the Registrar and shall be included in the Record.
17. The Registrar, as well as the parties and their Agents, shall endeavour to exclude from the Record all documents (more particularly such as are merely formal) that are not relevant to the subject-matter of the Appeal, and, generally, to reduce the bulk of the Record as far as practicable, taking special care to avoid the duplication of documents and the unnecessary repetition of headings and other merely formal parts of documents; but the documents omitted to be printed or copied shall be enumerated in a type- written list to be transmitted with the Record.
18. Where in the course of the preparation of a Record one party objects to the inclusion of a document on the ground that it is unnecessary or irrelevant, and the other party nevertheless insists upon its being included, the Record, as finally printed (whether abroad or in England), shall, with a view to the subsequent adjustment of the costs of and incidental to such document, indicate, in the index of papers, or otherwise, the fact that, and the party by whom, the.inclusion of the document was objected to.
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One certified copy to he transmitted, where Record to be printed in England.
Record printed partly abroad, partly in England.
Reasons for judgments to be included.
Exclusion of
unnecessary documents from Record.
Documents objected to
to be indicated.
and number- ing of Records.
19. As soon as the Record is received in the Registry of the Privy Registration Council, it shall be registered in the said Registry, with the date of arrival, the names of the parties, and the description whether "printed" or "written.' A Record, or any part of a Record, not printed in accordance with the Rules contained in Schedule A hereto shall be treated as written. Appeals shall be numbered consecutively in each year in the order in which the Record are received in the said Registry.
20. The parties shall be entitled to inspect the Record and to extract all necessary particulars therefrom for the purpose of entering an Appearance.
21. The Appellant shall enter an Appearance before taking any step in the prosecution of the Appeal, and after entering such Appearance, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Respondent, if the latter has entered an Appearance.
22. Where the Record arrives in England either wholly written, or partly written and partly printed, the Appellant shall, within a period of four months from the date of such arrival in the case of Appeals from Courts situate in any of the countries or places named in Schedule B hereto, and
Inspection
of Record by parties.
Appearance by Appellant.
Times within which a copy of a written Record shall be bespoken.
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