WUHAN -- Central China's Hubei province handed out criminal penalties to 202 individuals for illegal fishing and related activities in 2017, a record high for the province, local authorities said.
BEIJING -- While virtual reality (VR) technology may be most used at home or museums, it could also help lawyers and judges in the courtroom to get a better idea of how an alleged offence took place.
China's top court pledged on Feb 28 to increase efforts to tackle intellectual property rights infringements, after the central government unveiled guidelines on IPR protection.
With a steady rise in intellectual property cases involving foreign litigants during the past five years, China has improved the quality of such hearings by educating judicial officials, according to the nation's top court.
China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) pointed out the need to expand channels for judicial openness and extend their coverage in a working conference on Feb 28.
China's anti-graft system will see a fundamental change as the top legislature is scheduled to review a draft amendment to the Constitution and the country's first law on supervision to give legal footing to a new national supervisory commission.
Chinese courts have been ordered to fully protect litigants' personal information and boost efforts to analyze legal data while improving transparency, according to the Supreme People's Court.
