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788

Keeping of

notes of pro- ceedings in Chambers. 0.55.r. 73.

Drawing up

No. 3.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 190 (3.) This section shall not apply to any matter the further consid ation whereof has, at the original or any subsequent hearing, been journed into Court.

Registering and Drawing up of Orders.

682. Notes shall be kept of all proceedings in Chambers, with dates, so that all such proceedings in each cause or matter may appear Proper consecutively and in chronological order, with a short statement of the questions or points decided or ruled at every hearing.

683. Every order made in Chambers shall, unless the Court otherwise and entering directs, be drawn up or settled and signed by the Registrar; and all

orders so drawn up shall be filed in the Registry.

of order.

Ib. r. 74.

Evidence of order.

Ib. r. 74 A.

Delegation

of powers

and duties. New.

Appointment of sittings.

H. K. Code, 8. 62 (2.)

General

publicity of sittings. Ib. s. 52 (3.)

Order of business at sitting.

Id. a. 52 (4.)

684. An order signed by the Registrar, or a note or memorandum indorsed on the summons upon which any such order was made and signed or initialled by the Judge, shall be sufficient evidence of the order having been made.

685. The Court may in any case, if it thinks fit, direct that any of the powers and duties conferred and imposed on the Court by the pre- ceding provisions of this Chapter shall be exercised and performed by the Registrar, but subject to the right of the parties to bring any parti cular point before the Court.

CHAPTER XXXI Ovd. 36/11824

VARIOUS PROVISIONS.

Sittings of the Court.

686. The Court may, in its discretion, appoint any day or days from time to time for the trial and hearing of causes and matters, as circum stances may require.

687. The sittings of the Court for the trial and hearing of causes and matters shall ordinarily be public;

but the Court fit, try or hear any particular cause or matter in the presence only of may, if it thinks the parties and their counsel and solicitors and the officers of the Court

688. Subject to any special arrangements for any particular day the business of the day at any sitting of the Court shall be taken, as nearly as circumstances permit, in the following order:

(1.) at the commencement of the sitting, judgments shall be delivered in causes or matters standing over for that purpose and appearing for judgment in the trial paper;