She spent the entire week watching me sit in front of my computer, in complete silence, motionless except for the occasional click of the mouse to move to the next electronic document, and barely breathing. There were, indeed, many documents – over 40,000 pages of them, all for one case. The number of documents involved in modern-day civil litigation is substantial. When I started practising in 2004, an average half-day court hearing – say, for an interlocutory injunction application – would involve about 300 or 400 pages of documents. It is also a reflection of the increased complexity of the commercial activities that Hong Kong, as an international financial hub, encounters.