Mon, 04 Apr 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In February 2022, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued the 34th batch of guiding cases, indicating China’s procuratorates have been actively engaging in online defamation cases, which were originally self-prosecuted by the victims.
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.
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In February 2022, to protect EU companies’ right to file lawsuits in foreign courts, the EU brought contest against China’s anti-suit injunction at the WTO.
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In February 2022, the Supreme People’s Court issued the “Online Operation Rules of People’s Courts” (人民法院在线运行规则), which establishes a comprehensive online court system in China together with other two regulations.
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In January 2022, China’s State Council promulgated the revised “Administrative Regulations on Protection of Underwater Cultural Relics” (水下文物保护管理条例), which adds regulations on foreign organizations conducting archaeological investigation in waters under Chinese jurisdiction.
Tue, 29 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In March 2022, the Supreme People’s Court issued “Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Hearing Cases Involving Online Consumer Disputes I” (关于审理网络消费纠纷案件适用法律若干问题的规定(一)), aiming to correct inequalities between e-commerce platforms and consumers so as to protect consumers’ legitimate interests.
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In February 2022, China’s Supreme People’s Court issued the “Report on the Construction of a One-stop Diversified Dispute Resolution and Litigation Service System (2019-2021)” (人民一站式多元纠纷解决和诉讼服务体系建设(2019—2021)) and ten typical cases of online mediation, which summarizes the work of Chinese courts in promoting diversified dispute resolution since 2019.
Sun, 27 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
The 2021 Conference Summary enables an ever greater number of foreign judgments to be enforced in China, by making substantial improvements from both the “threshold” and “criteria”.
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
Asian Business Law Institute has recently released a free publication titled Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in ASEAN: Ranking the Portability of ASEAN Judgments within ASEAN, a derivative publication of its foreign judgments work.
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 China Law in One Minute Meng Yu 余萌
When you decide to sue a Chinese company, where will you file the lawsuit? China or your own country, provided that both have jurisdiction over your case?