Sun, 04 Apr 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Empirical studies in Chengdu Courts show that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a widespread shift to online litigation, which has been unexpectedly popular among judges and litigants.
Litigation in China
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 China Legal Trends Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬
China's Supreme Court's Several Provisions on Providing Online Case-filing Services for Foreign Litigants (2021) provides an Internet platform for foreign parties to file cases with Chinese courts, and streamlines the case-filing procedures.
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, 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, 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.