Seminar on mutual legal assistance

Starting tomorrow, 21 November, at 6:30 pm, in the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 18th floor), is a Seminar on “Mutual Legal Assistance – Criminal Matters – Transfer of Sentenced Persons”. Included in the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, the training course will have as speaker Otto Lagodny, Professor at the University of Salzburg, in Austria, and will last until Friday, 25 November. During the five sessions of the seminar, that will take place daily, between 6:30 and 8:30 pm, will be discussed the following topics: “Basic structures of legal relations”, “Avoiding/circumventing transfer proceedings by applying expulsion procedures”, “The beginnings in Europe: European convention – CETS No. 51, 30 November 1964 and CETS No. 70, 28 May 1970”, “Development and common features of legal instruments on transfer of sentenced persons since 1983”, “Closely connected instruments of transfer” and “Combination of transfer of sentenced persons – instruments with other instruments”. The seminar is jointly organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and the International Law Office and will be conducted in English. The seminar targets Law degree holders and will count on the participation of around thirty local participants. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, in which this seminar is integrated, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System”. Currently in its fourth year of execution, the Co-operation Programme will proceed until February 2007. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organisation of the pertaining activities ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.