Online Exclusive: China Addresses Privacy in New Law

Whatever the failings of China’s new Tort Liability Law, critics will be hard-pressed to argue it was hastily conceived. When the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the new law on Dec. 26, 2009, it had faced nearly eight years of consultation, debate and revision. The law, which takes effect on July 1, is a milestone in a country that already hosts more than one million tort actions annually.