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Of the fourteen cases selected, four are disputes involving at least one foreign party; three involve a party from Taiwan or Hong Kong; six are copyright disputes; four are disputes concerning the right to the exclusive use of trademarks; two are disputes of unfair competition; one is a dispute over a patent infringement; and one involves the theft of technical secrets. The judgments for many of these cases have been affirmed by the Supreme People’s Court or published in the Supreme Court’s Gazette or cited by the Supreme People’s Court in its news release. The character of this book is that there are comment attached to each judgment written by the presiding judges and thus adding more authenticity and authority to the judgments.
Commercial Publication
In addition to those case books compiled by courts, there are some commercial editions have been published among which the most significant and scholastic one is China’s Court Judgments Study (China Renmin University Press, 1992-date, yearly). Compiled Jointly by the Training Center of Senior Judge of China and the Law School of Renmin University of China, it is a large and voluminous case book published continuously since 1992 and the cases involved cover the every field of law and are selected carefully by the legal experts from the cases sentenced by all levels of courts. Each year it includes about more than 300 cases; and in each case, the judgment gives a clear report of the fact, the trial process and the reasoning. In addition, there is also a brief comment written by legal scholars in the end of the judgment.
Reference Sources
Judicial Yearbooks
A yearbook is a very useful reference source chronologically recording the events and important documents each year. Presently, there are three legal yearbooks which are national in scope in China. They are:
•China Law Yearbook (China Law Yearbook Press, 1987-date);
This publication is the most comprehensive legal reference work that consists of selections from a wide range of legal sources, including descriptive commentaries on legal construction, major laws and regulations, judicial instruments, court decisions, judicial statistical data, and general conditions of legal science and legal education. The first issue of law yearbook was also published in English from which the readers abroad can read many translated materials for the first time about China’s legal construction since 1979.
•Yearbook of People’s Court (People’s Court Press, 1989-1992);
This is a reference book chronologically recording the events and materials in the area of justice work each year. It usually contains:
•Work reports of the Supreme People’s Court and courts of province, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government;
•Survey of national justice work involving criminal, civil, economic and administrative trial;
•Major laws and judicial interpretations;
•Selection of documents for the administration of justice issued by the Supreme People’s Court;
•Important Speech of state leaders and of present, vice-present of the Supreme People’s Court;
•Report on important meeting;
•Selection of cases;
•Chronicle;
•Judicial Statistical data.
Regrettably, it ceased to publish in 1993.
•Procuratorial Yearbook of China (China Procuratorate Press, 1988-date).
This is a comprehensive reference book which records the information and materials about the procuratorial work of China each year. The columns in the book commonly include:
•Speech and reports delivered by leaders of state or the Supreme People’s Procuratorate;
•Work reports of people’s procuratorates of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government;
•Selection of the procuratorial documents;
•Typical cases;
•Foreign exchange and cooperation in procuratorial area;
•Research of theory, newspaper and magazine and press;
•Statistical data, etc.
•Historical Judicial Materials
China Today: the People’s Judicial Work (two volumes, China Today Press, 1993).This book is an essential work on China judicial history. It records mainly the judicial work and significant events of China from 1949 to 1989 and provides a wealth of historical data about developing process, achievements, experiences and lessons of courts. The content of the book encompasses six parts plus a preamble which expound, in detail and accurately, the justice activities of national courts in different period and aspects, including some major events in the history such as:
•Punishing the criminals of breaking finance and engaging in commercial speculation to stabilize commodity Prices and the People’s Life in the initial period of New China;
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