Mon, 10 Apr 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In February 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court released ten Typical Cases on Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality, including the one where a Bitcoin mining service contract was ruled null and void.
Sun, 30 May 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
What do we talk about when we talk about Typical Cases issued by China's Supreme People's Court (SPC)?
Sat, 16 Jan 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
No, China does not move towards case law, but keeps the tradition of statutory law while constantly innovating and exploring. The Similar Cases can be regarded as application tutorials with examples for statutory law.
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
China's Supreme Court's Guiding Opinions in June 2020 has set out the circumstances in which Chinese judges should retrieve the Similar Case.
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
China's Guiding Cases are different from case law, and in essence, belong to statutory law.
Sun, 15 Nov 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Guiding Case System and Similar Case Retrieval System are established to unify the application of law and restrict the discretion of judges.
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
For Chinese judges, discovering similar cases is an unfamiliar and challenging task. However, the Guiding Case System(指导性案例制度) and the Similar Case Retrieving System(类案检索制度) established respectively in 2010 and 2020 have required them to face up to this task.
Sat, 24 Oct 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
China's Supreme Court issued the Implementing Rules of the Provisions on Case Guidance (《关于案例指导工作的规定》实施细则) in May 2015, which clarified the details of how the Guiding Case System works.
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Where do China's Guiding Cases (指导性案例) come from? Provisions on Case Guidance were issued by the SPC in 2010 as a first step towards establishing the Guiding Case system.
Sat, 18 Jan 2020 Insights Liu Qiang 刘强
China's Supreme Court released its first batch of special research results on "Similar Case Retrieval and Adjudication Rules of Chinese Courts" On 27th Nov. 2019.