China Legal Trends provides up-to-the-minute comments on China's laws, regulations, policies and cases, as well as in-depth analyses on major events relating to Chinese law and insights on public documents.
As a column of China Justice Observer, China Legal Trends is updated daily.
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate, and Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the proposed “Guidelines on Fighting Cyberbullying Crimes and Violations (Draft for Public Comment)”. The Draft provides that such an act may be recognized as an insult or defamation under the Criminal Law, or as an infringement of personality rights under the Civil Code.
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, the Bankruptcy Tribunal of the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court published the “Guidelines on Handling Personal Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases”. At present, personal bankruptcy in China only applies in Shenzhen and nowhere else.
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In May 2022, the High Court of South Africa held that the Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) in question was independent, and not under direct or indirect control of the Shandong Provincial State-Owned Asset Supervision and Administration Commission (see DHL Project & Chartering Ltd v MV "Shandong Hai Chang" (A10/2020) [2022] ZAKZDHC 24).
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2023, the English version of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign State Immunity was published online by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The full text is available here.
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
Dr. Yongjian Zhang, former Senior Judge of the First Ranking of China’s Supreme People’s Court, has been appointed as an international judge at the Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (QICDRC).
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and the China Coast Guard (CCG) jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Improving the Investigation Supervision and Collaboration and Cooperation Mechanisms.
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued Environment and Resources Adjudication of China (2022) with typical cases and released data on environmental protection cases heard by Chinese courts in 2022.
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) released twelve typical cases on wetland ecological conservation.
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
The Sichuan Giant Panda National Park Ecological Court was officially established in 2021 under the guidance and support of China’s Supreme People’s Court.
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In May 2023, the Shanghai Financial Court (SFC) concluded China’s first civil compensation case for fraudulent asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance (See Postal Saving Bank of China Co., Ltd v. Kunshan Meijite Dengdu Management Co., Ltd et al. (2020) Hu 74 Min Chu No. 1801).