China News Service, Beijing, September 25 (Reporter Zhang Su) "Foreign-related civil and commercial maritime cases continue to rise." Wang Shumei, President of the Fourth Civil Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court of China, cited data on the 25th, saying that in 2019, the national courts newly admitted foreigners There were 15,872 commercial cases, a year-on-year increase of 11.26%.
There were 22,258 civil and commercial cases involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, a year-on-year increase of 48.16%.
Wang Shumei said that foreign-related civil and commercial cases mainly involve the United States, Vietnam, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the Bahamas.
In 2019, the national maritime courts accepted 29,929 maritime cases, with the parties involved in nearly 70 countries.
To this end, the Supreme People’s Court of China issued the “Guiding Opinions of the Supreme People’s Court on Further Expanding Opening-up of the People’s Courts’ Service Guarantees” on the same day, which requires proper review of international goods sales, cross-border investment mergers and acquisitions, financing guarantees, shipping finance, maritime cargo transportation, etc. Disputes; explore professional trials for China-Europe trains, new land-sea corridors, and international road transport cases.
Yang Wanming, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court of China, said that the innovative highlight of this judicial document is also to support local innovation and serve to guarantee a new pattern of opening up.
Specifically, it includes supporting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to build an international legal and dispute resolution service center in the Asia-Pacific region, and jointly building an international legal service center and an international commercial dispute resolution center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Hong Kong and Macau lawyers participate in dispute resolution as mediators.
The judicial document also clarified that it supports Hong Kong and Macao lawyers in the nine cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to carry out pilot work for Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao practicing lawyers to engage in the lawyer profession, and implement the National People’s Congress’s "Regarding the Authorization of the State Council in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay The Municipality’s Decision on Launching the Pilot Work for Hong Kong Legal Practitioners and Macau Practicing Lawyers to Engage in the Legal Profession".
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