China Justice Observer

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , 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 杜国栋 , 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 杜国栋 , 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 杜国栋 , 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 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌

Mr. Ma Xinmin (马新明), 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 杜国栋 , 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.

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌

In recent years, Chinese judges have become increasingly dissatisfied with their profession, and some have chosen to leave. Why？

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌

China’s Supreme People’s Court demonstrates its readiness, for the first time, in the Nanning Statement to loosen the criteria for recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌

Judge Jiang Xin, who rendered the first ruling to recognize and enforce a Singaporean court judgment in China, talks about what lessons China could draw from an Israeli case to promote the principle of reciprocity.

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌

Judge Zhao Qianxi, who rendered the first ruling to recognize and enforce a US court judgment in China, talks about his process of reflection in hearing the case.