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  Shanghai’s business environment improves as litigation capability grows

  2021-03-13

  A total of 224,000 first-instance commercial cases were finalized in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 7.6 percent, a result of the efforts by the Shanghai High People’s Court to optimize the business environment in the city, according to the court’s president Liu Xiaoyun. The court issue ...

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  Email for court evidence regulation

  2021-03-01

  The Decision of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China on Amending the Several Provisions on Evidence in Civil Litigation, promulgated by the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China on December 26, will come into force on May 1, 2020. Th ...

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  Settle dispute of international purchase goods quality issue

  2021-02-26

  Australian client purchase steel from Chinese supplier, total amount was 85,000 usd, after received the steel, client found that the specification and colour were different from their agreement in contract, violation of contract. After we accepted this case, arranged the SGS inspection for keeping t ...

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  More legal talent to aid in BRI cases

  2021-02-18

  China’s top court recently appointed 24 new specialists to its International Commercial Expert Committee – mainly people with legal backgrounds in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative – to help promote the initiative and solve related disputes. The new committee membe ...

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  Judgment of the first bitcoin “mining” contract case: the contract is invalid

  2021-02-17

  After hearing, the court held that the transaction involved in this case was actually a “mining” activity to calculate and produce virtual currency through a special “mining machine”. Such “mining” activities have large energy consumption and carbon emissions, whi ...

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