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.
Litigation in China
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 Insights Meng Yu 余萌
Here's a step-by-step guide to accessing China's virtual court proceedings through the app ‘China Mobile Micro Court’.
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
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.
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 China Legal Trends Yanru Chen 陈彦茹
Samming Intermediate Court in Fujian rendered a first-instance judgment on the case of returning the Buddha statue with the mummified body of Zhanggong Zushi.
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 Insights Jin Huang 黄进
The Supplemental Arrangement on the Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and Hong Kong SAR (2020) provides detailed interpretation on reciprocal enforcement of arbitral awards, and further refines the interregional judicial assistance system.
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 China Law in One Minute CJO Staff Contributors Team
There is no jury in China, instead, there are people’s assessors.
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
Supreme People’s Court of China announced the second group of members for the International Commercial Expert Committee.
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
On 4 Nov.2020, the Supreme People’s Court promulgated the Opinions on Supporting and Safeguarding Shenzhen in Building a Pioneering Demonstration Zone for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (关于支持和保障深圳建设中国特色社会主义先行示范区的意见).
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Ran Ren 任冉
In Chinese civil litigation, standards of proof can be categorized into two groups: most to-be-proved facts are subject to “preponderance of the evidence” standard, and some special to-be-proved facts subject to “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard.