Source: Hong Kong Information Services
The Greater Bay Area Foreign-Related Adjudication Talent Training Course, jointly organised by the Hong Kong International Legal Talents Training Academy and the High People’s Court of Guangdong Province, started today in Guangzhou.
During the opening ceremony, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam highlighted that the course is tailored for judges from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and nearby provinces. The initiative follows collaborations between the academy and the Supreme People’s Court and the Shanghai High People’s Court.
Mr Lam noted that the course aims to deepen judicial exchanges between Hong Kong and the Mainland, aligning with the National 15th Five-Year Plan’s goals to strengthen co-ordination in regional development and boost the GBA’s role as an engine for high-quality development. This effort contributes to the construction of a collaborative mechanism for cultivating foreign-related legal talent within the GBA.
The training course focuses on Hong Kong’s common law system and the practical application of guarantee law in foreign-related hearings through lectures and dialogues.
To enhance participants’ cross-border case capabilities, judges from Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance of the High Court and senior legal professionals have been invited to deliver lectures.
More than 100 senior judges specialising in foreign-related and bankruptcy adjudication from 68 courts across 32 cities in Guangdong Province and neighbouring areas, such as Guangxi, Hainan and Hunan are taking part in the three-day training course.