Zhou Qiang

Back to ‘black box’? As China tightens access to court records, legal experts fear for future of judicial transparency

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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

China to cut back access to court rulings, sparking concerns about judicial transparency

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The second is an archive of legal precedents selected by the Supreme People’s Court. It was set up three months ago, and 2,000 legal precedents have been posted there so far. Millions of court rulings removed from official Chinese database The internal court judgment database has raised concerns about whether the country’s courts will stop … Read more