Case-Law adopted by China?
By RUIYI LI This post was originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Group’s Blog and his reposted here with thanks. On the 26th of November 2011, the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPCC) announced the first set of ›guiding cases‹: two civil law cases and two criminal cases. This marks the establishment of the guiding cases system in China. What is a guiding case? A guiding case is a judgement selected by the SPCC from judgments already handed down by courts – both lower level courts and the SPCC itself. Once the judgment has been selected by the SPCC as guiding ... continue reading
