China Legal Trends
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In August 2022, a Chinese court rendered the first-instance judgment on China’s first public interest lawsuit involving movable cultural relics protection, requiring the defendant to bear the costs of cultural relics restoration and to apologize in the national media.
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, China revised the Law on Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products for the third time since its promulgation in 2006. The latest revision will come into force on 1 Jan. 2023.
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
China’s first law against telecom and online fraud, the Anti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law, which was adopted in September 2022, will come into force on 1 Dec.
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In August 2022, relevant authorities in China and the U.S. signed an audit oversight cooperation agreement, taking a big step in China-U.S. cooperation on cross-border audit oversight of Chinese companies listed in the U.S.
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In August 2022, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court issued the “Handbook for Evidence Presentation of Parties in Civil Cases Involving Computer Software Copyright” in both Chinese and English editions.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In August 2022, the China Law Society released the Annual Report on the Construction of Rule of Law in China (2021), in both Chinese and English.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In August 2022, relevant authorities jointly issued the “Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Establishment of a Unified and Standardized Statistical Accounting System for Carbon Emissions”, which specifies the construction objectives of the system and four key tasks.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In July 2022, China’s Supreme People’s Court introduced the main achievements of the case filing registration system of Chinese courts, which has been running from 2015.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In August 2022, the 17th conference of presidents of supreme courts of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states was held online. Focusing on judicial cooperation in multiple areas, the conference adopted a joint statement.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
By the end of 2021, benefiting from the China-Europe Railway Express, more than 49,000 freight train trips had been made, which had transported 4.432 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers.