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(Live Lecture & Webinar) Civil Procedure Update 2026
Prof. Gary Meggitt, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
Date: 27 October 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30pm - 5:45pm
Level: U (Updates)
Be relevant to all lawyers at any level of experience, to update or to enhance legal skills
Language: English
Fee: HK$ 1,850
Accreditation: (3 CPD Points will be applied for)
Ref: L26CP05
Venue: Live Lecture or Zoom Webinar
- Rm 2102, 21/F, Beautiful Group Tower,
77 Connaught Road Central, HK
- Online Webinar via Zoom
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Presenter's Biography:

Gary was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1993 and practiced insurance litigation with several leading UK law firms over many years. He is also Called to the Bar in England & Wales.

Gary served as the Course Director of BPP Law School's Full-Time Bar Vocational Course (BVC) in London before joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong in 2007. He currently teaches civil litigation and commercial dispute resolution on the PCLL programme and insurance law on the LLM, LLB and JD programmes.

Gary has written extensively on civil litigation, ADR, lawyers' professional conduct and insurance-related subjects. He is the author of Wilkinson's Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong (LexisNexis, 2026); Mediation and ADR Confidentiality in Hong Kong (Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2019); and Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong volume on Limitation of Actions (LexisNexis, 2015). He is a contributing author to A Guide to Civil Procedure in Hong Kong (LexisNexis, 2023); Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (Edward Elgar, 2024); and Insurability of Emerging Risks: Law, Theory and Practice (Hart, 2025).

He was the Director of the Faculty's Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) from 2015-2019 and served as Deputy Head of the PLE Department from 2009 to 2012.

Gary is a member of the Hong Kong Law Society's Insurance Law Committee. He is also serves as Convener for Head IV (Accounts & Professional Conduct) of the Law Society's Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination (OLQE).
 
Outline:

The course will cover recent developments in civil procedure including:

  • Appeals- Jovial Paradise Ltd v Ever Harmony Enterprises Ltd [2026] HKCA 1154 on whether fresh evidence was admissible in an appeal.

  • Artificial Intelligence - the Hong Kong Law Society's Generative AI in Legal Practice - Risks and Tips as it relates to civil procedure and the Judiciary's anticipated guidelines.

  • Case management - Liao Chen Toh v Loyal International Enterprises Co Ltd & Ors [2025] 6 HKC 193 on the timing of ‘close of pleadings'.

  • Commencement of Proceedings - Practice Note - Use Of The Integrated Court Case Management System For Case Commencement In The High Court in preparation for the mandatory use of iCMS in the last quarter of 2026.

  • Contempt - Ho Yuk Wah David [2026] HKCFI 3589 concerning an application for leave to commence contempt proceedings on basis of making a false statement in an affidavit.

  • Courts - the Hong Kong Judiciary's creation of the Hong Kong International Commercial Court (HKICC), a specialist division of the High Court, which will adjudicate on complex, high-value international and cross-border commercial disputes.

  • Discovery - China National Gold Group Hong Kong Limited v The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited [2026] 1 HKC 487 on whether a Norwich Pharmacal order was ‘necessary and proportionate'.

  • Expert witnesses - Chow Chi Yi v Poon Tak Lun [2026] 3 HKC 1034, the court held that the appointment of a single joint expert does not per se preclude a party from seeking leave to adduce its own expert evidence to challenge that single joint expert.

  • Mareva Injunctions - China Evergrande Group (in liquidation) v Xia Haijun & Ors [2026] HKCA 15, the Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against continuation of a Mareva injunction.

  • Sanctioned offers- Lin Ruiqing v Yung Run Yew Daniel [2026] HKCFI 3294, [2026] HKEC 3988, on whether it was unjust to order a defendant which refused a sanctioned offer to pay indemnity costs and enhanced interest

  • Security for Costs - P1 & Anor v D [2025] 2 HKC 50, the Court of First Instance ordered security for costs against the plaintiffs who had applied to set aside an arbitral award.

  • Service of proceedings - the April 2026 Arrangement on Mutual Service of Judicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Proceedings between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which replaces the previous 1999 arrangements with, inter alia, an increase in the modes of service.

  • Summary Judgment- BCPE Diamond Holdco SRL v Sunwe Plastic HK Ltd & Ors [2025] 2 HKC 415 on the entitlement to summary judgment in a claim for unjust enrichment.

  • Unless Orders - FA v Torture Claims Appeal Board/Non Refoulement Claims Petition Office [2026] HKCA 1048 in which the court refused relief from sanction for non-compliance with an unless order.

 
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