Five Chinese scholars are prevented from attending an online international academic conference; two senior British judges resign from Hong Kong’s highest court; Japanese youth ages 18-20 will now be tried as adults.
This Week in Asian Law
A retired Chinese Supreme People’s Court judge is under investigation; a Japanese court dismisses a lawsuit by ethnic Koreans and Japanese who say they were fraudulently lured to North Korea decades ago; Taiwan legislators approve lowering the voting age from 20 to 18, setting the stage for a public referendum.
This Week in Asian Law
China’s Supreme People’s Court releases typical cases involving the protection of minors; Hong Kong police warn the U.K. NGO Hong Kong Watch and its chief executive that they could be deemed in violation of the National Security Law; a senior economist at the OECD says it would be premature for South Korea’s president-elect to disband the Ministry of Gender Equality.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China implements comprehensive revisions to its Administrative Penalties Law; Hong Kong police will be empowered to make arrests without warrants under a proposed new anti-doxxing law; Japanese prosecutors drop charges against 100 accused bribe recipients in a case involving the former justice minister; South Korea defends its Anti-Leafleting Law; Taiwan’s National Human Rights Commission releases its first report.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: Shenzhen promulgates China’s first comprehensive local-level data protection regulation; Hong Kong police arrest nine in alleged bomb plot; Japan’s #MeToo icon, journalist Shiori Ito, wins a defamation case against a former professor; South Korea’s government promises legal action against trade unionists who rallied for better work conditions despite pandemic restrictions; Taiwan lawmakers block efforts to allow absentee voting in referendums.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China’s updated provisional sentencing guidelines take effect; a domestic worker in Hong Kong challenges the city’s response to human trafficking; France names a Japanese law professor a Knight of the French National Order of Merit; South Korea carries out a major reorganization of its police system; Taiwan legislators call for an absentee voting law.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: Shanghai’s Pudong New Area gains special legislative powers; a Hong Kong court opens the first trial under the National Security Law; Japan’s Supreme Court says that requiring married couples to register the same surname is constitutional; a South Korean court schedules a hearing date for the comfort women’s appeal; Taiwan denies that data from a COVID contact-tracing SMS service is being used in criminal investigations.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China’s Supreme People’s Court issues Online Litigation Rules; Hong Kong police arrest five senior executives of a leading newspaper; two Americans plead guilty in Japan to helping Carlos Ghosn flee prosecution; South Korea’s governing party seeks to impose punitive damages for disinformation and misinformation; Taiwan tries to attract foreign professionals with tax breaks and other incentives.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China passes an Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law; Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal will decide if the joint enterprise principle may be used to prosecute persons not present at a riot or unlawful assembly; a Japanese woman in a same-sex relationship sues to obtain spousal benefits; a South Korean court dismisses a lawsuit against Japanese companies over wartime forced labor; a Taiwanese student brings a claim against Norway at the European Court of Human Rights after Norway registered him as Chinese.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: laws mandating child safety seats, blocking software on computers used by children, and other protective measures take effect in China; Hong Kong police seal off Victoria Park to block an annual vigil for those killed in China on June 3-4, 1989; Japan’s Diet moves to do away with imprisonment with hard labor; South Korea appoints a new prosecutor-general; Taiwan formally decriminalizes adultery.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China publishes the 2021 report on Rule of Law development; Hong Kong police ban a vigil commemorating the victims of June 4, 1989; the Tokyo High Court allows restrictions on a transgender official’s choice of restroom; the governor of Jeju Province discloses his cryptocurrency holdings; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court upholds a mandatory prison term for sellers of copyrighted DVDs.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China tightens restrictions on private schools and requires them to pursue public welfare, not profit; an ordinance takes effect requiring Hong Kong public officers to take an oath to uphold the Basic Law; the Japanese government drops its plan to revise the immigration law after a Sri Lankan woman died in an immigration detention facility; the South Korean government considers allowing more foreigners to work as domestic workers; Taiwan’s president issues her first pardon to an indigenous Bunun man controversially convicted of weapons and poaching offenses.
This Week in Asian Law
This week’s highlights include: China proposes to tighten automobile data security; the Hong Kong government proposes to criminalize doxing; Japan’s amendment to its referendum law advances in the Diet; the South Korean government is criticized for asking Google to take down far more content than other governments; Taiwan’s Control Yuan urges action to curb human rights abuses on fishing vessels flying the Taiwan flag.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China promulgates a law to punish restaurants and diners who waste food; Hong Kong’s executive researches a “fake news“ law; Japan’s Diet advances a bill that may make it easier to amend the Constitution; South Korea’s special corruption investigation agency releases controversial rules allowing it to preempt prosecutors; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court upholds most restrictions on indigenous hunting.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China’s legislature amends the Food Safety Law, Advertising Law, and eight other laws; Hong Kong approves a controversial immigration bill that critics fear will give rise to ‘exit bans’; the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee joins an LGBTQ event and calls for an equality law; a South Korean ministry plans to allow children to take either of their parents’ surnames; Taiwan considers how to protect its fishing industry if Japan dumps radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China unveils an ambitous legislative plan for 2021; Hong Kong slides down on the world press freedom index; a Japanese court refuses to let a married couple enter different family names in the family register; a Seoul court rejects the request of 20 former “comfort women” for compensation from Japan; Taiwan passes an Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Act.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China’s anti-trust agency fines Alibaba $2.75 billion; a Hong Kong judge approves a settlement between HSBC and Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou giving her access to documents she seeks to fight extradition to the US; Japan considers increasing the penalty for online slander after the apparent suicide of a reality show performer; South Korea considers taking Japan to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to stop it from releasing treated radioactive water into the sea; Taiwan’s attorney general files an extraordinary appeal on behalf of a man on death row.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: the SPP pursues accountability for wrongful convictions; Hong Kong’s Court of Appeals says the ban on wearing masks at illegal gatherings is constitutional; Taiwan’s legislature to look into fatal train crash; the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics threatens legal action over leaked plans for the opening ceremony; South Korea relaxes application of cap on weekly work hours; Vietnam’s National Assembly elects a new prime minister and president.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: China declares victory in its three-year campaign against organized crime; seven prominent democrats are convicted of unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong; Taiwan faces calls to give same-sex couples equal adoption rights; Japan tells those recovering from COVID-19 to skip voting in local elections; South Korea’s president confronts the fallout from a real estate scandal.
This Week in Asian Law
USALI’s weekly round-up of legal news from Asia. This week’s highlights include: A Chinese court holds a brief, closed trial for Canadian Michael Kovrig; the Hong Kong Court of Appeals rules that the doctrine of “joint enterprise“ can be used to prosecute persons who were not physically present at 2019’s protests; the Japanese government halts use of the free messaging app Line by government officials after a serious data breach involving a Chinese firm; a North Korean national is extradited to the US from Malaysia to face money laundering charges; Taiwan’s Supreme Court issues a decision that could makes it easier to reopen alleged wrongful conviction cases; Vietnam’s National Assembly begins its annual plenum to elect a new government leadership.