Seminar on Mutual Legal Assistance

As part of the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao and starting tomorrow, September 7, at 6:30 pm, in the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 10th floor), is a seminar on “Mutual Legal Assistance – Civil Matters – Recognition and Enforcement of Judicial Decisions”. This seminar will take place until Friday, September 9, and will have as its speaker Carla Cristina Ribeiro Mendonça, holder of a Masters in Law by the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The subjects that will be discussed throughout the three days of the seminar are “Introduction and General Concepts”, “Recognition and Enforcement of Judicial Decisions in the MSAR” and “Recognition and Enforcement of Judicial Decisions in Europe – Tendencies and Evolution”. The responsibility of organising this seminar befalls to the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and the International Law Office. The seminar targets Law degree holders and will count on the participation of around fifty local participants. The 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 currently in its fourth year. 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 actions 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.