Mon, 27 Jun 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In April 2022, China launched the Chengdu International Commercial Tribunal, the first of its kind to have cross-regional centralized jurisdiction over foreign-related civil and commercial cases for first-instance trials in Sichuan Province.
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In May 2022, an antitrust case against China's largest academic publisher CNKI was filed by the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
In 2021, Xiamen Maritime Court of China ruled to recognize a Singaporean insolvency order in In re Xihe Holdings Pte. Ltd. et al. (2020), providing an example of how Chinese courts recognize foreign bankruptcy judgments based on the principle of reciprocity.
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 China Law in One Minute Meng Yu 余萌
In international trades, many traders do not always use formal contracts when doing business in China. Instead, they use simple purchase orders (POs) and proforma invoices (PIs), which do not cover all the details of the transaction.
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 China Law in One Minute Meng Yu 余萌
What do you do as a creditor if you have a winning judgment against your debtor in a country other than the one where the debtor has assets or is located?
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 China Law in One Minute Meng Yu 余萌
Is the Chinese company still in operation? Does it have any business in the last year? Does it have any regular income?
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
The webinar ‘Cross-border Commercial Dispute Resolution – HCCH 2005 Choice of Court and 2019 Judgments Conventions’ will take place on Wednesday, July 27 between 3 to 6 pm (Singapore time). This event is organized jointly by the Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI) and the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In May 2022, China’s highest judicial organs issued the “Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Handling of Public Interest Litigation Cases Involving Marine Natural Resources and Ecological Environment” (《最高人民法院、最高人民检察院关于办理海洋自然资源与生态环境公益诉讼案件若干问题的规定》), which stipulates how to handle civil public interest litigation involving the marine environment.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In May 2022, the draft of the “Catalogue of Encouraged Industries for Foreign Investment (2022)” was issued to solicit public opinion. The new catalogue adds 238 items and deletes 38 items compared with its 2020 edition.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In March 2022, China for the first time recognized and enforced an English commercial judgment.