Back to ‘black box’? As China tightens access to court records, legal experts fear for future of judicial transparency

By Phoebe Zhang

China’s top court acknowledges drop in judgments shared on public database and says it will launch limited legal archives – a move lawyers and scholars say is incompatible with ‘sunshine judiciary’ principle Beijing has promoted.

Source: Back to ‘black box’? As China tightens access to court records, legal experts fear for future of judicial transparency