CHINA MOVES TO PREVENT AGAINST OFFICIALS’ JUDICIAL MEDDLING: WILL IT WORK?
January 1st, 2016
This winter has been a bleak one for lawyers and rights activists in China as the country’s government cracks down yet further on advocates of free speech and political rights. Lawyers around the world will be dismayed by a UN Committee against Torture report which has claimed 200 lawyers had been detained between July and November in China.
However while ruthlessly supressing dissent, China has pushed some new initiatives which look set to speed up the legal process for business and non-political cases, including those involving fraud and corruption, ...
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