Meeting with the Vice President of Shanghai High People's Court

2020-12-16 | Shanghai

Meeting with the Vice President of Shanghai High People's Court

On 16th December, Mr Carlo D’Andrea, Vice President and Chairman of the Shanghai Board together with the Dr Michael Tan, National Chair of the Legal Working Group as well as Mr Reinout van Malenstein, National Vice Chair of IPR Working Group met with Mr Mao Ronghua, Vice President of Shanghai High People's Court.

Mr D'Andrea presented key recommendations of the Shanghai Position Paper. And the chairs also discussed the restrictions on foreign law firm's practice in China and the challenges of legalizing documents at the Chinese embassies and consulates in Europe due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Mr Mao introduced that the Shanghai High Court has been applying updated technology to assist court operation such as big data, blockchain, and said that they will look into the European Chamber's suggestions and continue the dialogue between the two sides. Mr Mao is hopeful that the COVID situation will ease next year in Europe and business will resume back to normal.