PLEADINGS
PART I – FORMAL REQUIREMENTS OF PLEADINGS PURSUANT O.18 r.6
1. Any pleading which requires to be served on every other party must, when it is presented for filing in the High Court Registry, bear the date or dates on which it was served.
PART II – AMENDMENT OF WRITS AND PLEADINGS
2. In all cases amendments shall be made in the following different colours:
First amendment – Red
Second or re-amendment - Green
Third amendment – Violet
Fourth amendment – Yellow
3. In a case where the amendment is not capable of a simple deletion and/or addition in the appropriate colour, the pleading or other document shall be retyped in black and the amendment deleted or underlined in the appropriate colour ink.
4. Where amendment is by way of deletion, the deletion must be so effected that the original wording can still be read without difficulty.
PART III – STRIKING OUT OF PLEADINGS
5. In applications to strike out pleadings as disclosing no reasonable cause of action or where no letter has been written by counsel for the applicant to counsel for the respondent signifying his intention to make the application and the broad grounds upon which he will rely, the applicant shall inform the respondent of the said grounds in writing at least five clear working days before the day fixed for the hearing.
6. This Practice Direction consolidates and supersedes the Practice Directions now appearing at pages 2.1, 21.1 and 21.4.
7. This Practice Direction shall take effect on 1 February 1999.
Dated this 31st day of December 1998.
(Andrew Li)
Chief Justice