Thu, 22 Nov 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) is about to issue a significant judicial interpretation, stipulating the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in China. Judge Song Jianli (宋建立) (Judge of the SPC’s 4th Civil Division) introduced the content of the judicial interpretation.

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 Insights Liu Qiang 劉強

The protection of the personal rights of Chinese judges is one of the most concerned issues for them. From an investigation report made by Longyan Intermediate People's Court of Fujian Province, we can learn that the personal rights of Chinese judges are often violated. Now, the SPC is working hard to solve this problem.

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Chinese courts recognized and enforced a U.S. judgment for the second time, indicating that U.S. judgments have begun to be recognized and enforced in China in a normalized way. Any U.S. judgment, whether made by a federal court or a state court, may be recognized and enforced in China.

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Improving the judicial accountability system, one of the most important measures in Chinese judicial reform, is supposed to hold judges accountable for life for cases they handle and to effectively discipline judges for misconduct. Prior to this, Chinese judges were never subject to such strict requirements.

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) tries to empower judges to exercise adjudicative power independently while taking more measures to supervise the trial work.

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Compared with their counterparts in other countries, the court presidents in China play a far more complicated role. They have to act as excellent administrators and politicians before acting as legal experts.

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Chinese courts are going one step further in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in civil and commercial matters.

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Chinese judges having doubts on specific issues in the trial work will seek for opinions of higher courts (appellate courts) and shall render judgments in accordance with the reply opinions.

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Mr. Ma Xinmin (馬新明), Deputy Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of P.R.C., introduced the important role of the Chinese judges in ensuring the compliance and clarification of the rules of international law and promoting international judicial cooperation and the codification of international law.

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜國棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Chinese courts at various levels, to some extent, are part of the administrative bodies in the national hierarchy, rather than just a judicial organ with the sole responsibility of adjudicating cases.