Live | LIVE: Hong Kong's biggest ever corruption trial - all defendants plead 'not guilty'

The biggest graft trial in Hong Kong's history opened today, with the city's former number two official and the co-chairmen of one of the world's major real estate firms in the dock. Former chief secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan is accused of receiving HK$34 million in bribes and other financial inducements from billionaire brothers Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong and Raymond Kwok Ping-luen, the chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP).

12.10pm: The court has reconvened and the rest of the day is expected to be taken up with procedural arguments that cannot be reported for legal reasons. The jury is unlikely to be sworn in today. We will wrap up our live coverage of the event for now, but will be on hand to bring you any updates or breaking news during the afternoon.

11.30am: The court takes a break for 20 minutes, with defendants and their lawyers filing out of courtroom number seven. Hui goes into a consultation room with his lawyers, while the Kwoks and their legal team go into a separate room.

11.22am: All five defendants have sat down after denying all of the charges against them. As the charges were read out Thomas Kwok wore a headset for translation. Outside the courtroom, in the fifth floor lobby, proceedings were projected onto three screens for the benefit of some 200 media representatives and members of the public present.

11.17am: Rafael Hui pleads 'not guilty' to count 8: misconduct in public office.

11.14am: All five defendants plead 'not guilty' to count 7: conspiracy to offer an advantage to a public servant