1. Although the Criminal Law includes many circumstances that qualify for lenient treatment by the courts, our legal philosophy has a preference for severity in dealing with crimes.
2. Now Chinese courts cannot raise a criminal or civil action in the absence of a suspect.
3. The people's courts should explain the reasons for sentencing in their documents of criminal judgment.
4. One trademark lawyer pointed out that on the criminal side, courts empower police officers with the discretion to execute temporary remedies.
5. The number of criminal executions will be reduced in China, with the sentence of death penalty with reprieve handed out more often in courts.
6. The people's procuratorates will make suggestions on penalty measurement to the people's courts when handling criminal cases.
7. Qi said Zhejiang courts have handled more than 2 million criminal cases since 2008 and only a small number of the suspects had hired lawyers.
8. Gong's alleged syndicate is among dozens of other organized crime groups ending up in the courts following a massive police crackdown on criminal gangs.
9. The juvenile courts will hold hearings on all criminal, civil and executive cases involving underage defendants.
10. Courts in Zhejiang province are testing a program that will offer free legal services to poor defendants in criminal cases.