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On January 16, 2025, the international authoritative legal rating agency Chambers and Partners announced the 2024 Greater China Region Guide rankings. Zhong Cheng Qing Tai Law Firm was ranked first (Band 1) in the corporate/commercial sector in Shandong. Geng Guoyu, the director of Zhong Cheng Qing Tai (Jinan) Law Firm, received the lawyer award (Industry Leader), and Du Wentang, the chairman of the management committee and senior partner of Zhong Cheng Qing Tai (Jinan) Law Firm, was also listed in the lawyer rankings. This marks the ninth consecutive year that Zhong Cheng Qing Tai Law Firm has been rated as the top firm in the corporate/commercial sector in Shandong by Chambers.
2025-01-17
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2025-01
Article 233 of the Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that the second-instance people's court shall conduct a comprehensive review of the facts determined and the laws applied in the first-instance judgment, without being limited by the scope of the appeal or protest. In practice, this "principle of comprehensive review" often fails to be implemented. On one hand, second-instance judges are still constrained by a presumption of guilt and have a sense of trust and closeness to the first-instance court, which is part of the same system. On the other hand, defense lawyers have not effectively explored the deeper implications of this principle to allow it to play a greater role in the second-instance process. In fact, in cases where the defendant in the first instance appeals after admitting guilt and accepting punishment, cases where the prosecutor disagrees with the protest but the victim files a civil appeal, cases where other co-defendants appeal without the defendant appealing, and cases where the defendant dies after the appeal, defense lawyers can leverage the "principle of comprehensive review" to provide more assistance to their clients.
2025-01-17
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On January 14, 2025, the first session of the Data Innovation Forum and the Intent Communication Meeting for the Construction of Trusted Data Spaces was held in the conference room of Zhongcheng Qingtai Jinan Institute. This meeting was organized by the Shandong Data Element Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community, and co-hosted by Shandong Zhongcheng Qingtai Jinan Institute and Shandong Data Trading Co., Ltd. The meeting was chaired by Hao Bin, a partner at Zhongcheng Qingtai Jinan Institute, with over 40 experts in the field of data research, legal experts, and business leaders in attendance.
2025-01-17
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2025-01
With the further impact of economic development on the real estate industry, there have been reports from various regions about the "cancellation of shared areas". This article combines China's current laws and regulations with practical operations to elaborate on the development history, current status, and future expectations of the "shared area" system in commercial housing in China. It also highlights potential legal risks and provides suggestions for response, aiming to benefit relevant participants in the real estate industry (developers, home buyers, and other stakeholders).
2025-01-17
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On January 9, 2025, the Ministry of Commerce of China announced the results of its investigation into the European Union's implementation of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). It concluded that the EU exhibited selective enforcement behavior during the execution of the FSR, which has harmed the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises in the EU market. This conclusion not only reveals new challenges in China-EU trade relations but also provides important references for Chinese companies on how to respond to the EU's trade barriers.
2025-01-15
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2025-01
Analysis of the Effectiveness of Printed Wills from a Civil and Commercial Perspective
With the development of the social economy, people's legal awareness has gradually increased, especially with the promotion of the Civil Code's public awareness campaigns in various regions, bringing the Civil Code into the public and into people's homes. Many people's understanding of wills has also changed, shifting from previous resistance, taboo, and aversion to acceptance. More and more people are choosing to make wills to address issues of property inheritance and wealth transfer, and to avoid internal family conflicts, by planning in advance for the inheritance of business wealth and successors. Printed wills are one of the newly added methods of making a will. So, what legal conditions should a printed will meet?
2025-01-15
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2025-01
Recently, lawyer Zhang Tianzi from Zhongcheng Qingtai Jinan received a letter of thanks from Tengzhou Xiangyun Big Data Technology Co., Ltd. In the letter, the client highly praised the data compliance expertise, work attitude, and efficiency of the lawyers at Zhongcheng Qingtai Jinan. The client specifically pointed out that in the face of the rapidly developing data asset business, the lawyers not only conducted meticulous reviews of every business link but also, with keen insight and precise understanding of legal provisions, successfully outlined a legal and compliant path forward for the client.
2025-01-15
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2025-01
Statutory inheritance, testamentary inheritance, and bequests are the three methods of realizing inheritance rights as stipulated in the Inheritance Chapter of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China. Statutory inheritance is a method where the range of heirs, the order of inheritance, and the principles of estate distribution are directly specified by law, characterized by its legal nature and mandatory enforcement, reflecting ethical and kinship concepts. Testamentary inheritance is the act of the decedent disposing of their estate through a will, where the heirs must be one or more of the statutory heirs as defined by the Civil Code. A bequest is when the decedent gifts personal property to the state, a collective, or organizations or individuals outside of the statutory heirs.
2025-01-15
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In economic life, enterprises often use the "borrow new to repay old" model to extend or renew debt terms when debts are due, in order to alleviate short-term repayment pressure and maintain normal production and business activities. However, this practice may lead to other issues in the context of guarantee legal relationships, particularly potential conflicts in the priority of mortgage rights. The "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Guarantee System in the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guarantee System Interpretation"), promulgated and implemented by the Supreme Court on December 27, 2021, further clarifies the application issues of the guarantee system in practice. Article 16 specifically addresses the conflicts in the priority of mortgage rights during the "borrow new to repay old" process, providing unified adjudication rules for judicial practice.
2025-01-15
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