Mon, 29 Mar 2021 Insights Yanru Chen 陈彦茹
'Yes, LEGO toys can be copyrighted as artworks', says Shanghai High People's Court in a criminal copyright infringement case in 2020, marking the latest judicial policy in IPR protection over decades.
Insight: China Justice 中国司法洞察
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
Recent years have seen a number of cases wherein Chinese courts actively apply international human rights treaties, despite the unclear status of international treaties in the Chinese legal system.
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌 , Ruida Chen 陈锐达
The survey (2019-2020) shows that court fees in most courts are charged per case basis (either 400 CNY or 500 CNY), rather than in proportion to the subject matter amount, which is undoubtedly good news for those wishing to enforce foreign arbitral awards.
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
The current forensic examination system has begun to take shape since the reform in 2005. A historical overview allows us to understand how the reform began and where it will lead.
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
Litigants living abroad are now able to access China's virtual court proceedings, according to China's Supreme Court's new policy.
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
On 3 Feb. 2021, operators of China's largest Fansub - YYeTs - were arrested, reflecting China's judicial policy towards stricter sanctions for intellectual property infringements since 2019.
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 Insights Zilin Hao 郝梓林
China's Supreme Court made a final judgment applying HCCH 1965 Service Convention to serve a Japanese litigant by post in 2019, under the situation where the government of Japan opposed to postal service but the Japanese litigant agreed to accept it.
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
In December 2019, China's Supreme Court promulgated the revised Civil Evidence Rules, which covers most rules of evidence in China's civil procedure.
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
As the landmark case Ren v. Baidu shows, Chinese courts are currently not supportive of claims by Internet users to have their personal information deleted.
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
"Yes", said a local Chinese court in Li Qiang v. Ding Fengjing (2018). The answer led to the refusal of recognition and enforcement of a Singapore judgment for the matrimonial property.