The Legal and Judicial Training Centre is going to organise the Seminar on “Mutual Legal Assistance: Party Autonomy in Cross-Border Civil and Commercial Matters” on 7th June, from 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. in the Multi-function Room of the Law Reform and International Law Bureau located on Alameda Dr. Carlos D' Assumpção, n. ° 398, CNAC building, 6th floor.

The Seminar, integrated as part of the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, will feature as its keynote speaker Dr. Tang Zheng, Lecturer of the School of Law, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

The Seminar will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation to Cantonese and Portuguese. During the four daily sessions, which will take place until June 10th, the following topics will be discussed:

1. Choice of Forum Agreements;

2. Choice of Forum Agreements in Europe – The Brussels I Regulation;

3. Judicial Support of Arbitration Agreements;

4. Choice of Law.

The 2nd Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is going to take place until December 2012.

The execution of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the Law Reform and International Law Bureau, together with many entities and public departments of the Macao SAR, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services, the Financial Services Bureau and the Institute of European Studies of Macao.