Sun, 22 Dec 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
When the tribunal is uncertain about an ongoing case due to its complexity, it may request other judges within the court to hold a meeting, i.e. the Judges' Meeting, to discuss the case and provide suggestions therefor.
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
In China, the court's adjudication committee often participates in the trial of complicated cases, but its opinion will not be presented in the judgment prepared by the tribunal. The Supreme People's Court is trying to change this situation.
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
Justice Jiang Bixin (江必新) of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) points out that Chinese judges shall think differently when handling commercial cases and civil cases. And now they are trying to think like a businessman in commercial cases.
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Chinese courts are studying how to protect the parties’ trade secrets from disclosure during litigation.
Fri, 21 Jun 2019 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬
How does a Chinese court set a Case Number(案号) for each case?
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
For a long time, Chinese courts have assigned cases to judges by their own dedicated personnel. Now, Chinese courts are trying to replace the traditional practice with a random case assignment mechanism.
Mon, 27 May 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Chinese judges work overtime to deal with the litigation explosion, which might render litigation less competitive than arbitration in China.
Fri, 24 May 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Law graduates, public civil servants, staff members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and veterans are the main sources of candidates for judges in China.
Sat, 04 May 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Foreign litigants are not allowed to use foreign languages in Chinese courts, but can request the court to provide an interpreter and/or a translator to translate their language into Chinese.
Sun, 28 Apr 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
In a Chinese court, a lawyer is speaking at a speed ten times slower than normal. Why?