China Legal Trends provides up-to-the-minute comments on China's laws, regulations, policies and cases, as well as in-depth analyses on major events relating to Chinese law and insights on public documents.
As a column of China Justice Observer, China Legal Trends is updated daily.
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In January 2023, Justice Zhang Yongjian from the People’s Republic of China was appointed as International Judge to the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) for an initial one-year term.
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In December 2022, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) released the “Measures for the Administration of Consumer Rights Protection of Banking and Insurance Institutions”, banning fraudulent, concealing, or misleading publicity and forced tie-in sale of products or services.
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In November 2022, Beijing Fourth Intermediate People’s Court issued a ruling in a foreign-related judicial review of arbitration case involving third-party funding, where the legality of third-party funding in arbitration was confirmed.
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In January 2023, China’s Ministry of Justice issued three arbitration guiding cases, aiming to publicize the advantages of arbitration in dispute resolution as being efficient, convenient, and professional.
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In January 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court released ten guiding cases on environmental public interest litigation, covering matters like smuggling foreign garbage and destroying natural relics.
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, a local court in Beijing issued a pre-trial conduct preservation order to stop noise nuisance,2 the first pre-trial injunction of its kind in Chinese judicial practice.
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 China Law in One Minute China Laws Portal Team
In 2022, China’s Ministry of Justice dealt with a total of 1692 judicial assistance requests from foreign countries, among which 1,571 were related to the service of documents, and 121 were related to the evidence-taking and the recognition and enforcement of judgments.
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In January 2023, a local Chinese court in Hunan Province issued the first “Community Property Declaration Order” in China. The Community property declaration mechanism may, to some extent, protect the wives’ property rights in the family.
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In November 2022, the Customs Tariff Commission of China’s State Council issued the “Announcement on the Ninth Extension of the Exclusion List of the U.S. Products Imposed with Additional Tariffs”.
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In December 2022, China’s Supreme People’s Court released six cases on judicial review of arbitration as the 36th batch of guiding cases.