A Guide to Civil Procedure in Hong Kong - Sixth Edition (Student)
Authors: Michael Wilkinson, Eric Cheung, Gary Meggitt
It is quite startling just how many judgments involving points of civil procedure are coming from the courts and just to keep abreast of developments is almost a
full-time occupation for practitioners and judges alike. And for students to master the rules is a considerable challenge. We hope that this text will go some way to alleviating their respective tasks.
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This text provides students with a clear and up to date exposition of the rules and judicial decisions governing the conduct of civil litigation in Hong Kong.
The Civil Justice Reform has been in effect since 2009 and there are many judicial decisions reflecting judicial approaches and attitudes to the implementation of the rules. The authors have chronicled these developments by reference to the considerable amount of case law on the rules and practice directions.
Principal Lecturer and Director of Clinical Legal Education, Faculty of Law, HKU Eric Cheung
Eric TM Cheung was a partner of one of the largest law firms in Hong Kong
before he joined the University of Hong Kong in December 1996, practising in
the areas of building and town planning appeals, solicitors’ indemnity claims,
building and construction litigation, general banking and commercial litigation.
For many years, he has been active in professional and public services. He has been
a chairman of the Buildings Appeal Tribunal and is the Chairman of the Housing
Appeal Panel. He has been a member of the Election Committee for the selection of
the Chief Executive of the HKSAR, the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission, the
Judicial Studies Board as well as various committees of the Law Society of Hong
Kong. He has served as the examiner on the Law Society’s Overseas Lawyers
Qualification Examination Panel on the Civil and Criminal Procedure Head, and
on the Bar Qualification Examination on Civil Evidence and Civil Procedure.
He is the course coordinator of the Civil Procedure Course and the Director
of Clinical Legal Education at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, HKU Gary Meggitt
Gary Meggitt was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1993 and spent over a decade in practice with several leading UK law firms. He is also Called to the Bar in England & Wales. Gary taught at BPP Law School in London from 2000 to 2007 and was Course Director of its Full-Time Bar Vocational Course (BVC). He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2007 and teaches civil litigation, commercial dispute resolution and professional practice on the PCLL as well as insurance law on the Law Faculty’s degree programmes. Gary serves as a Convener for Head IV (Accounts & Professional Conduct) of the Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination (OLQE). He is also a member of the Hong Kong Law Society’s Insurance Law Committee.
Michael Wilkinson obtained his undergraduate and masters’ degrees from
Cambridge University. Having worked in academia in England and Africa he
came to Hong Kong in 1983 and served as Head of the Department of Professional
Legal Education at The University of Hong Kong for 13 years and Chairman
of the Board of the Law Faculty for 8 years. He was a member of the Chief
Justice’s Working Party on Civil Justice Reform and a member of the Law Reform
Commission. When he reached the ripe old age of 70, he technically ‘retired’ but
was appointed Adjunct Professor and continues to teach his full teaching load.
He has also served the University as its Public Orator for the last seven years, a
position that he continues to hold.
He has written many books including Hong Kong Conveyancing Law and
Practice and Cases and Materials (with Judith Sihombing) in 11 looseleaf
volumes, The Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong (with Michael
Sandor) in five looseleaf volumes, Halsbury’s Civil Procedure (in four volumes),
Advocacy and the Litigation Process (three editions, the last with Vandana
Rajwani and Ray Pierce) and A Guide to Hong Kong Conveyancing (with Judith
Sihombing) which went into its seventh edition in 2014. He loves his work and
his students and refuses to stop.
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