It will be a supplement to the existing China Judgments Online, or CJO, another website run by the Supreme People’s Court. CJO – an important resource for lawyers, academics and the public – was thrown into the spotlight in December when the Supreme People’s Court admitted that Chinese courts were uploading fewer verdicts to the … Read more
China’s top court has promised to publish more legal decisions online after a controversial move to roll back access to court rulings raised alarm last month. In Beijing on Sunday, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) pledged to provide services to the public, experts and scholars for research and legal purposes, according to state news agency … Read more
The debate generated so much heat that Xu’s sentence was reduced to seven years with a fine of 300,000 yuan on appeal, and authorities eventually punished officials who were previously untouched in the scandal. The case was one of several in the past decade in which Chinese members of the public used the transparency in … Read more
