China's Court to Publicly List Verdict Enforcement Evaders

　　The Supreme People's Court of China circulated in Beijing in July 2011 the latest developments in fighting against verdict enforcement evaders and published 9 representative cases in sanctioning the evasion of legal enforcement locally. Deputy Chief Judge of the Enforcement Board Mr. Zhang Genda told that local courts were expected to set up credit platforms sharable with authorities concerned, preferably to set up credit databases of individuals and enterprises by collecting information on non-performance of obligations, to crack down on enforcement evasion.

　　The courts were encouraged to work with local authorities to execute credit-based punishment, such as news publication, expenditure capping, restrictions on border exit, lower credit rating and non-entry into market. Meanwhile, the courts shall attach no less importance to criminal penalties, which are irreplaceable in counter-evasion. For serious enforcement evasion, the courts will impose on the evaders the criminal liabilities for crime of refusal in enforcing verdict or ruling, or crime of performing illegal disposition of sealed, seized and frozen properties.

　　Civil judgment has long been suffering low enforcement in China's judicial system. However, along with the strengthening of enforcement, by the end of this May, the courts nationwide enjoyed a rate of 63.66% in completion of verdict enforcement, with 80.52% of enforcement in process, up 12.7% and 7.1% over the same period last year.

(Adapted from China IP News)