Tue, 07 Dec 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

Since 2020, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate has been exploring to establish a corporate compliance non-prosecution system. In June 2021, the newly-issued SPP policy document signals the adoption of conditional non-prosecution when introducing a third-party supervision and evaluation mechanism.

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

China's Personal Information Protection Law (個人信息保護(hù)法), enacted in August 2021, draws the boundaries for Internet platforms conducting automated decision-making through algorithms.

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

Two recent notices issued by Chinese local courts manifest that the litigation explosion has delayed the trial schedule for many cases, amounting to a significant extension in the actual time of legal proceedings.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

8,883 criminal cases, representing 30.63% of all criminal cases, were heard online in 2020. Online court hearings for criminal cases have become common in Shanghai courts.

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

Are Chinese judges and prosecutors returning to law practice for higher income? Statistics show that only a few have changed their careers to lawyers.

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

A study of over 400 administrative punishment cases sheds light on the current attitude of the Chinese government towards facial recognition and provides a scenario to assess how China’s Personal Information Protection Law would apply should the cases occur today.

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

Under China’s People's Assessors Law, the assessors in a seven-person collegial bench can only participate in the fact-finding, but not the application of law. The newly issued replies from the SPC and MOJ clarify how the collegial bench shall produce a list of issues on the fact-finding, so as to sure the proper distinction between legal matters and factual matters.

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

In July 2021, China’s Supreme People’s Court issued the “English Translation of Organizations, Positions and Workplaces of the People’s Court”, standardizing the relevant English translations.

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟

In August 2020, the Intellectual Property Court of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued, in Huawei v. Conversant (2019), the first-ever conduct preservation order as equivalent to anti-suit injunctions in China’s IP-related litigation.

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Two recently issued documents of China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) outline the work processes required for the procuratorates to handle public interest litigation cases.