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.
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In October 2022, China's Supreme People's Court and other three authorities jointly issued “Opinions on Further Deepening the Pilot Program of Full Coverage of Lawyer's Defense in Criminal Cases”, which extends the stage where the criminal suspects could have a lawyer to the 'examination and prosecution' stage.
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In October 2022, China's Supreme People's Procuratorate released the data on case handling by China's procuratorates in the first three quarters, which shows that arrests in China have fallen sharply.
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, Shanghai Maritime Court issued the “Guidelines for Blockchain Evidence Review”, introducing blockchain evidence to maritime trials.
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, China’s Supreme People’s Court issued the “Selected Cases of Judicial Reform of People’s Courts (XII)”, which selects typical practices of judicial reforms by local courts, and sets them as good examples for courts nationwide.
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends Meng Yu 余萌
In September 2022, the People’s Bank of China issued the “2022 RMB Internationalization Report”, introducing the international use of RMB, the offshore RMB market, and the prospect of RMB internationalization.
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends China Laws Portal Team
New Developments in China’s Foreign-related Commercial and Maritime Trial Services.
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, the Xiamen Foreign-related Maritime Tribunal heard its first case.
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, China's Supreme People's Court issued a final jurisdictional ruling on the Nokia v OPPO case and rejected Nokia's appeal.
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, Shanghai adopted the “Shanghai Regulations on Promoting the Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry”, which aims to promote the development of this emerging industry.
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In September 2022, the BRICS Justices Forum adopted the “Joint Statement of the BRICS Justices Forum”, which shows the consensus that the BRICS countries will keep promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and further reinforce international judicial assistance.