An online seminar on judicial cases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was held in Guangzhou on April 23.
According to their respective litigation procedures, judges and lawyers from the region conducted a mock trial of a cross-border sales contract dispute. They conducted professional discussions on the convergence of litigation rules for cross-border commercial disputes.
The event was jointly hosted by judicial authorities of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao.
The mock trial involved the examination of evidence submitted across borders, identifying extraterritorial laws, and the resolution of inter-regional legal conflicts.
Judges and lawyers from the three regions and scholars from Peking University, Wuhan University, City University of Hong Kong, and the University of Macau discussed issues such as jurisdictional conflict and coordination, comparison and reference of rules of evidence, and cooperation in extraterritorial law identification.
Hu Yunteng, director of Case Law Study Institute of China Law Society, said that the mock trials could connect the judicial theories and practices, enhance legal exchanges between the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, and strengthen the comparative law study, cross-border cases study and judicial cooperation at the Greater Bay Area.   
More than 700 judges and lawyers from the Chinese mainland watched online the mock court.