China News Service, Guangzhou, August 16 (Reporter Fang Weibin) On August 16, the Nansha District People's Court of Guangzhou successfully mediated a Hong Kong-related private lending dispute online, and electronically delivered the "Civil Mediation Letter".
This case is the first case successfully mediated and represented by a Macao lawyer in the country after lawyers from Hong Kong and Macao were allowed to practice in nine mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
In this case, Mr. Luo, a Hong Kong resident, and Ms. Zou from Guangzhou were friends. Ms. Zou asked for a loan from Mr. Luo when she encountered financial difficulties. Mr. Luo lent her 400,000 yuan, and the two set up an IOU through WeChat.
After that, due to various reasons, Ms. Zou was unable to repay the loan on time. After repeated appeals to no avail, Mr. Luo chose to sue in court.
On July 19 this year, the online remote authorization witness of the case was completed, confirming that Macau lawyer Kuang Yuqiu participated in the lawsuit in the Nansha court in the mainland as the agent of Mr. Law, a Hong Kong resident.
Since then, Kuang Yuqiu has maintained active communication with the court, reconciling the restoration of friendship, the handling habits of Hong Kong and Macau in dealing with such disputes, the efficiency of dispute resolution, and the optimal outcome.
"I have fully experienced the efficiency of the mainland court's case handling. From the first document served by the court on the day of handling the authorization witness, the whole process is very compact and efficient. The court also specially arranged an online hearing this time, and issued a written civil mediation letter less than half an hour after the mediation was completed, which perfectly ended the dispute between the two parties." Kuang Yuqiu has a very deep feeling when handling the first case. .
After obtaining the consent of both parties, the handling judge of the case, Hu Weiyao, actively promoted the clearing of facts, sorted out the factual disputes before the court and sent them to both parties, so as to fix the facts of the case and the focus of disputes in a timely manner.
According to reports, the fact-clearing procedure is another innovative exploration by the Nansha Court on the basis of adhering to the basic system of civil litigation in the Mainland, promoting the convergence of the judicial rules of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and drawing on the rules of extraterritorial litigation.
"The so-called fact-clearing refers to the procedure in which judges in civil and commercial cases clarify the arguments of the parties in writing before court, fix the facts that have been proved, and clarify the facts to be proved." According to the Comprehensive Trial Division of Nansha Court (foreign-related According to Sun Hao, the presiding judge of the Trial Division, this is the first time the Nansha court has explored and applied this procedure. The procedure has obvious effects in fixing the facts of the case and clarifying the focus of the dispute, which has promoted the mediation of this case to a certain extent.
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