Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng met Supreme People’s Court president Zhou Qiang as part of her four-day visit to Beijing.
Hong Kong’s legal profession is set to get a boost after the justice chief secured consent from mainland China’s top court for local lawyers interested in practising in Guangdong province to be offered training courses. The consensus on providing practical mainland legal training courses was reached on Wednesday after a meeting between Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah and Supreme People’s Court president Zhou Qiang in Beijing. Cheng is on a four-day visit to the capital to meet senior cadres from various ministries. During the meeting, the mainland side also agreed to render “support to Hong Kong legal practitioners to join the international commercial expert committee of the [Supreme People’s Court] and serve as specially invited mediators and assessors of [mainland courts]”, according to a Hong Kong government statement on Cheng’s Wednesday itinerary.
