This is not a question about Chinese contract law, rather one I have regarding contract law in UK and USA or other common law countries.
In China, there is only one set of rules of Contract Law, much the same principles as applicable in other major civil law countries like German or France.
When reading materials regarding common law trusts, very often I encountered…
Real life can be complicated beyond imagination.
After working in cross-border estate planning for more than a decade, I just came to know a case brought to me by an inquirer which is intriguing to me as it should be the first case of its kind my all my past legal practice. By the way, I just gave some oral advice back then.
I. Facts of the Case
Here are the facts: a foreigner…
A typical contract dispute is that one party unilaterally rescinds a valid contract by serving a termination notice to the other party citing some or no reasons. This drastic action often causes turmoil and substantial loss to the other party.
What can the non-terminating party do when caught in such a situation under Chinese contract laws? The answer is not…
The world is now sourcing various products in and from China. You may be one of them.
Wherever you do business with China (I mean, Chinese businessmen), you need to sign a contract with your Chinese counterparts.
Unfortunately, as a new market economy where most businesses esp the small ones don’t really know much about market, Chinese businesses don’t…
My clients, two foreigners, operate a successful restaurant in Shanghai for a few years. They invest in the business but the restaurant was registered in two Chinese persons’ names in order to save time for starting the business. Of course, there is a contract between the two foreigners and the Chinese nominee shareholders. Recently, the two clients…
A client from the Middle East approached me recently seeking legal advice regarding a dispute with a Chinese supplier.
The client entered into an English-written contract with the Chinese supplier under which the supplier would supply the contractual goods at agreed price to the client. The contract stipulated that client shall make a “deposit”…
