Executive Summary
Paras
Table of Contents
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Executive Summary
PART I - THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
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The Civil Justice System
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Pressures on many Civil Justice Systems and on Hong Kong's System
Pressures on the Hong Kong System: Expense, Delay, Complexity and Unrepresented Litigants
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9 - 16
Expense
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17 - 19
Delay
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20 - 21
Complexity
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22 - 23
Unrepresented litigants
PART II - POSSIBLE REFORMS
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24 - 25
Need for Reform
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26 - 28
Reforms and expense
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29 - 30
The Woolf reforms as a useful framework
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31
The main concepts underlying the Woolf reforms
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32 - 33
The overriding objective
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34 - 40
Case management
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41
Possible reforms in specific areas
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42 - 45
Pre-action protocols
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46 - 47
Mode of commencing proceedings and challenging jurisdiction
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48
Default judgments and admissions
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49 - 54
Pleadings and statements of truth
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55 - 56
Summary disposal of cases or issues
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57 - 59
Offers of settlement and payment into court
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60 - 62
Interim remedies and security for costs
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63 - 67
Case management - timetabling and milestones
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68 - 69
A docket system
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70 - 72
Specialist lists
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73 - 78
Multi-party litigation
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79 - 87
Discovery
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88 - 94
Interlocutory applications
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95 - 96
Witness statements
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97 - 99
Expert evidence
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100
Trials and case management
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101
Appeals
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102 - 106
Costs
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107
The CPR schedules of provisions from the RSC
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108 - 109
Possible reforms and ADR
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110
Judicial review
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111 - 117
Implementing the reforms
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118 - 123
Resources