Subcommittee on Draft Subsidiary Legislation
Relating to the Civil Justice Reform

Meeting on Tuesday, 8 April 2008, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
in Conference Room B of the Legislative Council Building

A G E N D A

I.	Meeting with the Administration/Judiciary Administration (2:30 pm - 4:25 pm) Papers issued since the last meeting
	LC Paper No. CB(2)1455/07-08(01) (English version only) (issued on 28 March 2008)	-	Joint submission dated 24 March 2008 from Prof LEE Jung-soo and Prof Swati Jhaveri of the School of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in response to a number of issues raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 29 February 2008
	LC Paper No. CB(2)1469/07-08(01) (English version only) (issued on 31 March 2008)	-	Further submission dated 28 March 2008 from the Hong Kong Bar Association in response to a number of issues raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 29 February 2008
	Scrutiny of the Draft Rules of the High Court (Amendment) Rules 2008 Papers provided by the Judiciary Administration
	LC Paper No. CB(2)1000/07-08(01) (English version issued on 1 February 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Proposed Amendments to the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4A) (RHC) 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 (Amendment) Rules 2008 (Draft RHC)
		-	Annex B - the Draft RHC
		-	Annex C - the marked-up version of the provisions affected by the amendments in the Draft RHC
	LC Paper No. CB(2)1129/07-08(01) (English version issued on 20 February 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Policy aspects of the proposed amendments to RHC
	LC Paper No. CB(2)1152/07-08(01) (English version issued on 20 February 2008) (Chinese version to follow)	-	Summary of views received on the Draft RHC during the public consultations in April 2006 and October 2007 and the response of the Steering Committee on Civil Justice Reform
	Submissions from deputations and the Judiciary's response (a) Judiciary's response to submissions from deputations at the meeting on 29 February 2008 LC Paper No. CB(2)1373/07-08(02) (English version issued on 18 March 2008) (Chinese version to follow) - Judiciary's response to the views of deputations expressed at the meeting on 29 February 2008 (b) Further submissions from deputations LC Paper No. CB(2)1403/07-08(01) (English version only) (issued on 20 March 2008) - Further submission dated 19 March 2008 from Mr Eric CHEUNG Tat-ming in the light of the Judiciary's revised proposals and response to the views of deputations expressed at the meeting on 29 February 2008 LC Paper No. CB(2)1422/07-08(01) (English version only) (issued on 25 March 2008) - Further submission dated 20 March 2008 from Mr Gary Meggitt in the light of the Judiciary's response to the views of deputations expressed at the meeting on 29 February 2008 LC Paper No. CB(2)1392/07-08(01) (English version only) (issued on 19 March 2008) - Further submission dated 18 March 2008 from the Law Society of Hong Kong in response to a number of issues raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 29 February 2008 LC Paper No. CB(2)1411/07-08(01) (English version only) (issued on 20 March 2008) - Further submission dated 19 March 2008 from Mr Gary Meggitt in response to a number of issues raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 29 February 2008 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 (4:25 pm - 4:30 pm)

Council Business Division 2
Legislative Council Secretariat
3 April 2008