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CIVIL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCETRIAL ADVOCACY IN HONG KONGAudrey Campbell, Jack BurkeNEWTrial Advocacy in Hong Kong is a highly practicalwork on how to carry out advocacy effectively in HongKong. It provides readers with the necessary skills toprepare a case, deliver opening submissions, conductan examination-in-chief, succeed in the complex art ofcross-examination and re-examination, and presentclosing submissions. Many illustrations of thesevarious skills are included, with references to the legalcontext that govern these areas.Sweet & MaxwellMay 2012 978 962 66141 0 5 PaperbackHK$880Bullen, Leake & Jacobs PRECEDENTS OFPLEADINGS Hong KongEditor-in-Chief: The Hon. Mr. Justice Bokhary PJGeneral Editor: Godfrey Lam, SCNEWBullen & Leake & Jacob’s Precedents of PleadingsHong Kong is regarded as the essential guide todrafting statements of case. It offers authoritative,structured precedents of statement of case completewith guiding commentary across both mainstreamand specialist areas of practice. This publicationprovides all the pre-requisite examples andprecedents required to equip practitioners draft airtightpleadings. It is encyclopedic in scope, deliveringstructured, succinct precedents of statement of casefor all branches of litigation.Sweet & MaxwellMay 2012 978 962 66139 3 1 HardbackTBCZuckerman on Civil Procedure: Principles ofPracticeThird EditionProfessor Adrian ZuckermanNEWZuckerman on Civil Procedure provides a coherentand detailed account of the CPR system intended tofacilitate a thorough understanding of how the courtsinterpret and apply the rules. The work looks at theprinciples that govern the exercise of judicial discretionin light of the overriding objective and details howjudges exercise their extensive case managementpowers and what this means for the conduct oflitigation.• Provides an interpretation of the grey areas of theCPR, particularly:––Service––Legal professional privilege––Privilege against self-incrimination––Implications of the European Convention onHuman Rights––The exercise of discretion in relation toenforcing compliance with time limits––Costs• Compliments the White Book, outlining thesignificance of leading cases, highlighting currenttrends in judicial thinking and suggesting solutionsto problems which have no clear answer• Outlines the significance of leading casesHighlights current trends in judicial thinking• Suggests solutions to problems that have no clearor satisfactory answer• Looks backwards to precedents but will alsoprovide arguments for pushing the law in certaindirections• Explains how the court uses its discretionarypowers• Provides the principles necessary for mountingarguments in areas where the law is uncertainSweet & Maxwell UKMar 2012 9781847039606 HardbackHK$2,703116+852 3762 3222 www.sweetandmaxwell.com.hk smhk.salesenquiries@thomsonreuters.comPrices are correct at time of going to press, but may be subject to change without prior notification