Hong Kong Regulations

PNEUMOCONIOSIS AND MESOTHELIOMA (COMPENSATION) APPEAL RULES - RULE 10

Automatic directions

(Past version on 01/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Upon service of the respondent's Answer, unless the Court otherwise
orders, the following automatic directions shall apply-

   (a)  that the parties to the appeal shall make discovery by exchanging
        lists of documents within 14 days;

   (b)  that any application for third party discovery shall be made within 28
        days of service of the Answer;

   (c)  that where any party intends to place reliance at the hearing of the
        appeal on medical or other expert evidence, he shall, not less than 42
        days before such hearing, disclose the substance of that evidence to
        the other party in the form of a written report, which shall be agreed
        if possible; and

   (d)  that application to set the appeal down for hearing shall be made
        within 6 months of the filing of the Answer.

(2) Order 24 of the Rules of the High Court ( Cap 4 sub. leg.) shall apply,
with such modifications as may be necessary, to any discovery to which an
automatic direction under subrule (1)(a) applies. (25 of 1998 s. 2)

(3) Section 42 of the High Court Ordinance ( Cap 4) and Order 24, rule 7A of
the Rules of the High Court ( Cap 4 sub. leg.) shall apply, with such
modifications as may be necessary, to any application for third party
discovery to which an automatic direction under subrule (1)(b) applies.

(25 of 1998 s. 2)