Sun, 12 Jul 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 張辰揚 , Zhu Mengxuan 朱夢璇

Timestamp and blockchain are being applied in Chinese courts to improve the efficiency of evidence examination and reduce the cost of presenting evidence.

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 張辰揚 , Zhuo Yiwei 卓懿偉

The expert opinion is professional opinions provided by a neutral judicial expertise institution to the court on some factual issues of a case. As a type of statutory evidence, it plays an important role in China's civil litigation.

Sun, 28 Jun 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 張辰揚 , Zhuo Yiwei 卓懿偉

Though China's evidence presentation order system differs from the evidence discovery and disclosure in some ways, for those who wish to obtain the key evidence controlled by the other party, it is worth to have a try.

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 張辰揚 , Yue Wu 武悅

A Chinese court can investigate, collect, and preserve the evidence ex officio or upon the application of the parties, when the evidence may be destroyed or difficult to be collected in the future.

Fri, 01 May 2020 Insights Chenyang Zhang 張辰揚 , Yue Wu 武悅

"The burden of proof lies with the party asserting a proposition" (誰主張，誰舉證) is a primary rule in the judicial proceedings. The application for evidence collection by the court can only serve as a complement to the presentation of evidence by the parties themselves, and it does not work all the time.