Resolution of Economic Disputes: litigation (II) Second instance procedureThe second instance procedure, also known as the appeal procedure, refers to the procedure applied by the people's court at the next higher level to hear an appeal case filed by a party who challenges a decree or an order of the first instance…
Resolution of Economic Disputes: litigation (I) First instance procedureThe ordinary procedure of first instance is the most fundamental procedure in the trial of economic cases, and is the most complete and widely applicable among all procedures. A case tried applying this procedure should be closed within 6 months.1. …
Resolution of Economic Disputes: litigationIV. Economic litigation procedureEconomic litigation procedure refers to the steps and process of the people's court hearing economic cases in accordance with the law. The people's court shall apply the procedures stipulated in the Civil Procedure Law to hear economic c…
Resolution of Economic Disputes: litigationIII. Statute of Limitations1. Concept of statute of limitationsStatute of limitations refers to the system whereby the right of an obligee will not be protected by law if the claim is not exercised within the statutory period. According to the General Principles of the Civil La…
Resolution of Economic Disputes: litigation (II) Geographic jurisdictionGeographic jurisdiction refers to the division of labor and jurisdiction of the people's courts at the same level over civil cases of first instance based on the geographic areas of the people's courts and the subordinate relationship of civ…
Resolution of Economic Disputes: Administrative ReconsiderationII. Jurisdiction over Economic DisputesJurisdiction over economic cases refers to the division of labor and authority for accepting first instance economic cases between superior and subordinate people's courts, as well as between people's courts at …
Resolution of Economic Disputes: Administrative Reconsideration (II) Jurisdiction and admissibility of economic disputesIn the PRC, economic cases fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme People's Court, local people's courts at all levels, railway transportation courts, and maritime courts. Article 3 of the …
Resolution of Economic Disputes: Economic LitigationI. Overview of Economic Litigation(I) Concept of economic litigationEconomic litigation refers to the activities of hearing and adjudicating economic cases conducted by judicial organs in accordance with the law. Economic litigation is an activity in which the people…
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