Procedural Standards for Civil Proceedings in China’s Internet Courts

The research purpose of the given article is the identification of the procedural features of conducting civil proceedings in the Internet courts of China. The creation of new methods for solving commercial disputes related to the Internet, primordially on e-commerce has increased the number of transactions concluded and, consequently, the volume of sales of goods and services, the net profit of which amounts to billions of US dollars. The emergence of new judicial instances required the consolidation of new procedural basis, and acts of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China plays an active role in this process. Despite the reform of the procedural legislation, the process of dispute resolution in Internet courts has not been fully regulated by the norms of the Civil Procedural Code and the Law on Administrative Proceedings. Actions performed by participants in an online court session have the same legal consequences as in the normal procedure of legal proceedings, since the civil procedural form of protection of rights must comply with mandatory legal features. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.