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Client Note: Refusal to Perform a Judgment, Entrusting Enforcement to Another Court, and Retrial of a Divorce Mediation Order
Where a party refuses to perform an effective civil judgment or ruling, the court may freeze accounts, seize property, restrict the debtor's exit from…
Client Note: Exit Restrictions, the Effect of a Stay of Enforcement, and Execution Against Other Assets
Where a judgment debtor openly refuses to perform, the court may impose an exit restriction — a measure that in practice exerts more pressure than man…
Rights Within Marriage: Personal Rights, Support of Children and Disposal of Joint Property
Marriage does not extinguish individual legal personality. Rights to personal liberty, privacy, reputation and to one's own pre-marital property survi…
Trade Secret Infringement: Judgment for the Rights Holder
H Company manufactures and sells fashion bags, luggage and leather goods. Its products and marks have been recognised as a Shanghai Export Famous Bran…
Commercial Bribery by a Supplier: RMB 610,000, Sentence Reduced
During a cabling and equipment maintenance project for the Shanghai office building of M, a US-invested consulting company, H — legal representative o…
Legal Counsel to Xinlian Weixun Co., Ltd.
Xinlian Weixun Co., Ltd. is recognised as a High-Tech Enterprise, a "Specialised, Refined, Distinctive and Innovative" (专精特新) enterprise, a cultivated…
Third-Party Objection in Enforcement: Protecting a Spouse’s Share of Matrimonial Property
A financial company applied to enforce a judgment in a financial loan contract dispute against F. A third party, G, filed an objection, stating that s…
Expropriation Compensation: Mediated Settlement Between Sisters
The plaintiffs and the first defendant are sisters; the second defendant is the first defendant's husband. Their late mother owned a property in Shang…
Legal Adviser to a Dubai Real Estate Brokerage
G Real Estate Brokerage Company is registered in Dubai. Shanghai Lixiaohua Law Firm acts as its legal adviser on matters connected with its China-faci…
Division of Demolished Property: Judgment on the Respective Shares
A and his wife lived with their son B, B's wife and their grandson. The family home was demolished and the compensation used to purchase three flats —…