Sun, 03 Apr 2022 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
China published a landmark judicial policy on the enforcement of foreign judgments in 2022. This post addresses the newly-introduced criteria for determining reciprocity, which ensures efforts to substantially open the door to foreign judgments.
Sun, 27 Feb 2022 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
China’s Supreme Court’s newly-issued 2021 Conference Summary on cross-border commercial and maritime litigation, addressed, among others, jurisdiction clauses, cross-border electronic service, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
China’s newly amended Civil Procedure Law aims to reduce the caseload and simplify the litigation procedure by, among others, promoting online litigation and supporting mediation.
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
YES, as long as the transaction is for business purposes rather than for consumption purposes, as a local Chinese court rules in Yang v. Yucheng Huayu Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (2021).
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 Insights Zilin Hao 郝梓林
China's Supreme Court made a final judgment applying HCCH 1965 Service Convention to serve a Japanese litigant by post in 2019, under the situation where the government of Japan opposed to postal service but the Japanese litigant agreed to accept it.
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
China's Supreme Court issued the Guiding Opinions on the Service and Safeguard of the People's Court for the Further Opening-up in September 2020, indicating its readiness to participate in the global competition of the cross-border dispute resolution market.
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
Judge Shen Hongyu of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) talked about the SPC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nov. 2020, and introduced cross-border dispute resolution in the post-pandemic era.
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 China Legal Trends Yanru Chen 陈彦茹
Samming Intermediate Court in Fujian rendered a first-instance judgment on the case of returning the Buddha statue with the mummified body of Zhanggong Zushi.
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 Insights Huo Zhengxin 霍政欣
What Role has Private International Law Played?
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 Insights Zilin Hao 郝梓林
In Chinese judicial practices, unless the jurisdictional clause clearly stipulates that is "non-exclusive", it is more likely that the agreement of jurisdiction would be deemed as "exclusive".