Court decisions go online in Beijing
( 2003-11-06 16:45) (Xinhua)
The Beijing High People's Court Wednesday initiated a website where people
can freely search and review the documents of judicial decisions on intellectual
property rights (IPR) cases handled by the courts in Beijing at various levels.
Zhu Jiang, vice-president of the Beijing High People's Court, said all of the
judicial documents of the first and final judgments on IPR cases will be
uploaded to the website - bjgy.chinacourt.org - covering categories such as
patents, trademarks, copyright, improper competition and technical contracts.
Zhu said his court will upload the judgment documents every month, and if a
case is very important and has drawn wide social concerns, his court will
publish its judicial decisions within two days after the delivery of the
judgment.
"The new move will increase judicial transparency and create a new channel
for people to supervise the courts' operations. Meanwhile, it will facilitate
IPR researchers to get first-hand information and help common people learn more
about IPR," Zhu said.
Zhang Lumin, president of the third civil court under the high court, which
is specifically for IPR cases, said her court will publish all of the IPR case
judgments as of this year, while the judicial documents before this year will
not to be available on the Internet.
But she said her court has published two books which contain many important
and eye-catching IPR cases since 1993.
Other judicial decisions apart from IPR cases will also be opened to the
public in the near future, according to sources with the court. Enditem
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