New China Rules on Privilege, Judgment
The Chinese legislature has adopted new draft standards creating an attorney-client privilege in criminal cases and making it easier to enforce civil judgments.
The fledgling standards approved by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress will eliminate monitoring of conversations between criminal suspects and their counsel. They also “will help address the long-standing problem that civil court rulings often are not enforced,” by increasing fines for noncompliance, reports Reuters.
Under the new attorney-client privilege standard, criminal suspects and their legal counsel “will not be monitored when they meet and lawyers with proper documentation, such as a legal practitioner certificate, will be entitled to meet criminal suspects or defendants in person once judicial organs have finished their initial interrogation,” the news agency reports.
