Subcommittee on Draft Subsidiary Legislation
Relating to the Civil Justice Reform

Meeting on Friday, 16 May 2008, from 10:45 am to 12:45 pm
in Conference Room B of the Legislative Council Building

A G E N D A

I.	Meeting with the Administration/Judiciary Administration (10:45 am - 12:40 pm)
	(A)	Scrutiny of the proposed amendments to the Rules of the High Court (RHC)
		Issues raised at previous meetings
		LC Paper No. CB(2)1928/07-08(03) (English version issued vide LC Paper No. CB(2)1946/07-08 on 15 May 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Paper entitled "Appeals to the Court of Appeal Re: totally unmeritorious leave applications" provided by the Judiciary Administration
		Other relevant papers previously issued
		LC Paper No. CB(2)1000/07-08(01) (English version issued on 1 February 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Paper entitled "Proposed amendments to RHC (Cap. 4A)" together with the following Annexes - Annex A - a summary table setting out the RHC Orders affected and the relevant Amendment Rules in the Draft RHC Annex B - the Draft RHC Annex C - the marked-up version of the provisions affected by the amendments in the Draft RHC
	(B)	Scrutiny of the proposed amendments to the Rules of the District Court (RDC), the Lands Tribunal Rules and four sets of Rules relating to fees
		LC Paper No. CB(2)1491/07-08(01) (English version issued on 2 April 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Paper entitled "Proposed amendments to RDC (Cap. 336H)" together with the following Annexes - Annex A - Comparison table between the latest Draft RDC and the latest Draft RHC Annex B - the latest Draft RDC Annex C - the marked-up version of the latest draft RDC
		LC Paper No. CB(2)1491/07-08(02) (English version issued on 2 April 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Paper entitled "Proposed Amendments to the Lands Tribunal Rules (Cap. 17A)"
		LC Paper No. CB(2)1491/07-08(03) (English version issued on 2 April 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Paper entitled "Proposed Amendments to the High Court (Fees) Rules (Cap. 4D), District Court Civil Procedure (Fees) Rules (Cap. 336C), High Court Suitors' Funds Rules (Cap. 4B), and District Court Suitors' Funds Rules (Cap. 336E)"
		Final Report on Civil Justice Reform published in March 2004 will be tabled at the meeting (A list of other relevant papers previously issued is available on the LegCo website at http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr07-08/english/hc/sub_com/hs51/papers/hs51_ppr.htm)
II.	Any other business (12:40 pm - 12:45 pm)

Council Business Division 2
Legislative Council Secretariat
15 May 2008