Hong Kong Regulations

DISTRICT COURT CIVIL PROCEDURE (GENERAL) RULES - RULE 7

Continuance and transfer of actions

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) All proceedings in an action shall continue in the district in which the
action is commenced and such action may be heard and determined therein unless
and until an effective order be made to transfer the action to the Court
sitting in another district or to the High Court.

(2) Subject to any directions which may be given in that behalf by the Chief
Justice, a judge may, for securing the more convenient or expeditious disposal
of any action or matter pending in a district in which he is for the time
being sitting, order that such action or matter or any proceeding therein be
transferred to another district; any such order may be made at any stage by
the judge of his own motion or on the application of any party on such grounds
relating either to the particular circumstances of the action or matter or to
the state of the lists generally in each district as the judge may think fit.

(3) Where a judge makes an order of transfer to another district of his own
motion there shall be no appeal from such order, but where such an order is
made on the application of any party an appeal shall lie in accordance with
the provisions for the time being applicable to proceedings in the Court.

(4) In any case in which an action has been commenced in the district other
than that in which it ought to have been commenced, the judge may if he
considers it just direct that the case be tried in the district in which he is
for the time being sitting or may order it to be transferred to any other
district.