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Westlaw China

Westlaw China

Westlaw China

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Description Online legal database containing comprehensive laws, regulations, cases, model contracts and legal journals of China. It provides more than 820,000 laws and regulations promulgated by Chinese government agencies at the central, provincial, municipality and autonomous region levels since 1949.
The database also contains more than 480,000 cases sourced from the Supreme People's Court and provincial courts, as well as special courts such as maritime courts. It also contains a bilingual reference guide for legal terms in Chinese laws and regulations. The glossary is indexed alphabetically in English and according to the pinyin of Chinese.
Westlaw China is updated daily. It has a bilingual database platform. You can view the English or Chinese version alone or the Chinese-English side by side version. Bilingual user guides are also available from the site.