Opinion | China’s move to scale back judicial transparency may be bigger political threat to Beijing than scrutiny of cases

Opinion | China’s move to scale back judicial transparency may be bigger political threat to Beijing than scrutiny of cases

Over a week ago, China’s Supreme People’s Court said it had substantially reduced the number of court judgments uploaded to a public archive in recent years. It also said courts must store rulings in a new internal archive only accessible to court officials and police. The confirmation came days after top mainland legal scholars raised … Read more

China to cut back access to court rulings, sparking concerns about judicial transparency

China to cut back access to court rulings, sparking concerns about judicial transparency

The second is an archive of legal precedents selected by the Supreme People’s Court. It was set up three months ago, and 2,000 legal precedents have been posted there so far. Millions of court rulings removed from official Chinese database The internal court judgment database has raised concerns about whether the country’s courts will stop … Read more