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Tort Liabilities And Torts Law: The New Frontier Of Chinese Legal Horizon, Mo Zhang
Tort Liabilities And Torts Law: The New Frontier Of Chinese Legal Horizon, Mo Zhang
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
China did not have a single body of torts law until 2009. As a new piece of legislation in the country, the Torts Law of China, effective as of July 1, 2010, forms a comprehensive framework that regulates torts and provides a legal mechanism to govern liabilities and remedies. A product of the civil law tradition, common law practice and Chinese reality combined, adoption of the Torts Law is hailed in China as an important move toward a civil society that is ruled by law.
The Torts Law premises torts on the fault liability with a few exceptions where the …