China News Service, Guangzhou, June 23 (Fang Weibin and Zhang Yahui) The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court announced on the 23rd that the judicial rules of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area were connected with a mock trial in Guangzhou.
The purpose of this mock court hearing is to further promote the implementation of the convergence rules at the practical level through demonstration operations, to promote the legal profession community and relevant research institutions to further build consensus and strengthen cooperation, and jointly make greater efforts to deepen the exploration of the convergence of judicial rules in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. contribute.
In the mock trial, Guangzhou court judges and Guangzhou lawyers focused on a Hong Kong-related sales contract dispute, and demonstrated the specific operation of the connection of relevant judicial rules through the pre-trial procedure and the trial procedure respectively.
Zhong Jianping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice President of the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province, emphasized that it is necessary to carefully summarize the differences in rules between the Mainland, which implements a socialist legal system, Hong Kong, which implements common law, and Macau, which implements mainland law, and connect the rules as much as possible. Remove obstacles due to conflicting rules.
Explore common legal culture, form norms with exemplary significance and nature, and even form new rules that can be adopted by different jurisdictions, and continuously enhance the soft power and influence of the rule of law in the Greater Bay Area.
Yang Zhenggen, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and President of the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, introduced that, as a central city court in the Greater Bay Area, the Guangzhou Intermediate Court has been actively exploring in recent years, continuously deepening the connection with the judicial rules of Hong Kong and Macao, and continuously improving the quality and efficiency of foreign-related trials.
On the basis of the first trial of the Nansha Free Trade Zone Court, the Guangzhou Intermediate Court has fully solicited the opinions of foreign-related lawyers, experts and scholars in light of the actual work of foreign-related civil and commercial trials, and sorted out and improved the discovery of evidence, truth-telling, entrusting the parties to serve, The operation guidelines for the connection of six judicial rules, including lawyers' investigation orders, cross-examination and similar case debate, have made active explorations and provided useful reference for deepening the connection of judicial rules.
According to reports, the operating guidelines for the connection of the six judicial rules have completed the inland transformation of the Hong Kong and Macao rules, and are applicable to foreign-related civil and commercial cases heard by courts at both levels in Guangzhou.
The promulgation and implementation of the Guidelines provides institutional guarantee for further promoting the connection of judicial rules, further highlights the principal status of the parties, effectively brings into play the role of lawyers and other professional agents, comprehensively improves the quality and efficiency of cross-border commercial dispute resolution, and enhances the international judicial status of the Mainland. credibility.
In the next step, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court will deepen judicial exchanges and cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao regions, and strive to make new and greater achievements in strengthening the connection of the judicial rules of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and promoting the reform of foreign-related judicial mechanisms, and strive to provide better quality for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. , efficient and convenient judicial services and guarantees.
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