Secretary for Justice Paul Lam and his delegation met a senior official and visited a not-for-profit commercial arbitration organisation today as they concluded their visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 
 

Mr Lam and the other delegates first called on Saudi Arabia’s Vice-Minister of Justice Arabia Najem bin Abdullah al-Zaid this morning to discuss various aspects of legal co-operation, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Department of Justice and the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on April 22. The agreement strengthens co-operation between the two places on issues relating to dispute avoidance and resolution.
 

Mr Lam and his delegation then visited the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA), a not-for-profit organisation established by the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia in 2014 to administer alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures in commercial disputes. They held a meeting with the SCCA’s board of directors.
 

This meeting followed an international legal and dispute resolution event in March which was hosted in Riyadh by the SCAA and attended by a Department of Justice-led delegation.
 

In the afternoon, Mr Lam and the delegation departed for Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.