In the run-up to the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued a report on its work (Chinese only) in support of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) Strategy 2019-2022.
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On 1/3 Dr. Li Wenliang was admonished for writing about cases of pneumonia in a chat group for doctors. On 1/28, the Supreme People's Court published this article.
SPC Interpretation of Civil Procedure Law
The SPC's new rules on public oversight of the courts, aimed to help build the credibility of the judiciary, look a lot like customer satisfaction policies at retail venues, and that's not a bad thing.
Not so very long after the products of China's Third Plenum left many of those hoping for more overt court reform wanting, the Supreme People's Court has released its own opinion on preventing wrongful cases, which encapsulates and reinforces much of what the Court has been saying since new president ZHOU Qiang took office in March this year. Judicial Independence, procedural justice, and the exclusion of illegally acquired evidence are all prominently featured.
This walkthrough will guide you through it.
The SPC is making rules and making them clear--- well, clear with Chinese characteristics. This document lays out the rules for increasing case-handling quality and trying to make sure cases get decided based on the facts and evidence by an independent judicirary. Do they go far enough?