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, 18 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court reported on the drug control works of Chinese courts since 2022.
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, the English version of the Law on Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China was published online by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The full text is available here.
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released the “Annual Report on China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement (2022)” in English and Chinese versions.
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, the Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC) promptly froze the respondent’s bank accounts through an online system when handling the applicant’s property preservation application in a supply contract arbitration.
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
By the end of 2022, China had more than 651,600 practicing lawyers and more than 38,600 law firms.
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In June 2023, the English version of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China was published online by China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress. The full text is available here.
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.