Sun, 12 Jul 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Zhu Mengxuan 朱梦璇
Timestamp and blockchain are being applied in Chinese courts to improve the efficiency of evidence examination and reduce the cost of presenting evidence.
Evidence in Civil Proceedings in China
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Zhuo Yiwei 卓懿伟
The expert opinion is professional opinions provided by a neutral judicial expertise institution to the court on some factual issues of a case. As a type of statutory evidence, it plays an important role in China's civil litigation.
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Zhuo Yiwei 卓懿伟
Though China's evidence presentation order system differs from the evidence discovery and disclosure in some ways, for those who wish to obtain the key evidence controlled by the other party, it is worth to have a try.
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
Acting as a Chinese judge's assistant in intellectual property cases, the technical examination officer helps the court to understand professional and technical issues.
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Yue Wu 武悦
A Chinese court can investigate, collect, and preserve the evidence ex officio or upon the application of the parties, when the evidence may be destroyed or difficult to be collected in the future.
Sun, 03 May 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Is it true that only upon recognition by Chinese courts, can foreign judgments become admissible into evidence?
Fri, 01 May 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Yue Wu 武悦
"The burden of proof lies with the party asserting a proposition" (谁主张，谁举证) is a primary rule in the judicial proceedings. The application for evidence collection by the court can only serve as a complement to the presentation of evidence by the parties themselves, and it does not work all the time.
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
The results of polygraph tests are not admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings, but still remain controversial in civil litigation.
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Ran Ren 任冉
E-mail is an evidence form recognized by Chinese courts, but given its authenticity being easily challenged, the parties should take the right way to obtain and present evidence to ensure its effectiveness.
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 Insights Chenyang Zhang 张辰扬 , Xuan Zhao 赵暄
In China's judicial practice, recording is a common way of collecting evidence. If the private conversation recording without the permission of the other party satisfies certain conditions, the court may admit it as evidence.