Sun, 31 Jan 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
In China, court conference summary, though not binding, can serve as guidance to the judges in their trials. In essence, it is more of a consensus of the majority of judges, similar to 'prevailing opinion' (herrschende Meinung).
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 Insights CJO Staff Contributors Team
China has enacted laws to place employment restrictions on sex offenders. Chinese local authorities are trying to adopt practices similar to those of the U.S. Megan's Law.
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
China's Supreme Court issued the Guiding Opinions on the Service and Safeguard of the People's Court for the Further Opening-up in September 2020, indicating its readiness to participate in the global competition of the cross-border dispute resolution market.
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌 , Ruida Chen 陈锐达
To enforce a foreign arbitral award in China, the average length of proceedings is 596 days, the court costs are no more than 1.35% of the amount in controversy or 500 CNY, and the attorney's fees are, on average, 7.6% of the amount in controversy.
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
What has China's Supreme Court been doing during the pandemic? Judge Shen Hongyu talked about the SPC's response to COVID-19 in Nov. 2020.
Sat, 16 Jan 2021 Insights CJO Staff Contributors Team
China's Supreme People's Court issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of Copyright and Copyright-Related Rights in November 2020, further clarifying how Chinese courts will protect copyright in litigation.
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, 10 Jan 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
To enforce a foreign judgment in China, the average length of proceedings is 584 days, the court costs are no more than 1.35% of the amount in controversy or 500 CNY, and the attorney's fees are, on average, 7.6% of the amount in controversy.
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
Judge Shen Hongyu of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) talked about the SPC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nov. 2020, and introduced cross-border dispute resolution in the post-pandemic era.
Sun, 27 Dec 2020 Insights CJO Staff Contributors Team
In its fifth year of implementation, the Law Against Domestic Violence is expected to play a more effective role in protecting the victims of domestic violence.