{"id":1429,"date":"2020-04-08T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boasecohencollins.com\/hong-kong-courts-embrace-video-technology\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T06:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:25:58","slug":"hong-kong-courts-embrace-video-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boasecohencollins.com\/zh-hans\/%e7%bd%91%e8%aa%8c\/hong-kong-courts-embrace-video-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong courts embrace video technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/legacy-images\/News\/2019\/CovidSIX_PHOTO.jpg\" alt=\"CovidSIX PHOTO\" width=\"502\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Hong Kong courts embrace video technology<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hong Kong, 8 April 2020:<\/strong> Some good news, Hong Kong is making progress on using video technology for court hearings. As many of you are&nbsp;aware, our courts have been generally closed, bar emergency hearings, since late January due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic and there appears little possibility of normal service being resumed soon. With the backlog of cases&nbsp;becoming critical, our Judiciary has been under mounting pressure from across the legal profession to find&nbsp;solutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Judge of the High Court, Jeremy Poon, has now issued a guidance note for remote hearings for civil&nbsp;business. He states that paper disposal of hearings not involving live witnesses have proved to be successful and&nbsp;should be the first resort as far as possible. And he continues: \u201cWhere oral submissions are still necessary the&nbsp;court will conduct remote hearings by means of available technology. A remote hearing can be conducted in and from&nbsp;any court room with VCF  available, or in and from any court room where VCF can be&nbsp;made available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What types of cases can be heard via this method? All interlocutory applications or appeals in the Court of First&nbsp;Instance; final hearings usually dealt with on written evidence (without live oral evidence) such as applications&nbsp;for judicial review; and all civil appeals and interlocutory applications including applications for leave to&nbsp;appeal in the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, we witnessed a small slice of history on Monday as a family court in the High Court used video&nbsp;conferencing in a divorce case. This was followed on Tuesday by a judicial review hearing concerning the powers of&nbsp;the Independent Police Complaints Council that was also conducted remotely. Now, I should stress these hearings&nbsp;took place in the Judiciary\u2019s existing Technology Court, purpose-built some years ago to support video&nbsp;conferencing, enable display of electronic documents and hear testimony from overseas witnesses. It is just one&nbsp;court room, so we wait with interest to see how the new guidelines will work elsewhere in the High Court. Still, at&nbsp;a time when other jurisdictions such as the UK, Australia and states in the US are well ahead with remote hearings,&nbsp;this is welcome progress on an urgent issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hong Kong recorded 24 new coronavirus cases on Monday and 21 yesterday, taking the city\u2019s total to 935, which is&nbsp;just over .012% of the population. Fatalities remain at a remarkably low four. A ban on gatherings of more than&nbsp;four people at venues such as restaurants has been extended until 23 April and an extension on the closure of&nbsp;leisure facilities, including many bars and pubs, cinemas and gyms is expected soon. All signs are that the general&nbsp;closure of schools and universities is to be extended from its current deadline of 20 April to the end of May.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid all of this, we have continued working at Boase Cohen &amp; Collins, where we are following strict hygiene&nbsp;regulations and utitlising phone calls, emails and video conferencing in place of face-to-face meetings. These are&nbsp;challenging times and I would like to thank all my colleagues for their continuing dedication and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In closing, I\u2019m again grateful to Dr David Owens for allowing me to share his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otandp.com\/blog\/what-is-the-latest-on-the-covid-19\">Covid-19 update<\/a> \u2013 always&nbsp;essential reading \u2013 and you can also access Ally Law\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/covidally.com\/\">COVIDAlly blog<\/a> for information, insights and resources about&nbsp;the pandemic that are relevant to the business community.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe, everybody!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Cohen<\/strong><br \/><strong>Senior Partner<\/strong><br \/><strong>Boase Cohen &amp; Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong courts embrace video technology Hong Kong, 8  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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