Sat, 04 May 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜國(guó)棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Foreign litigants are not allowed to use foreign languages in Chinese courts, but can request the court to provide an interpreter and/or a translator to translate their language into Chinese.

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜國(guó)棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

In a Chinese court, a lawyer is speaking at a speed ten times slower than normal. Why?

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜國(guó)棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

China’s Supreme People's Court (SPC) is prompting judges to explain their reasons as carefully as possible in judgment writing.

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜國(guó)棟 , Meng Yu 余萌

Chinese courts have developed a performance appraisal system to measure judges’ performance. If you want to establish reasonable expectations about how Chinese judges hear cases, the role of this system should not be overlooked.