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Closer judicial cooperation between mainland and Taiwan

Xinhua, June 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Courts on the Chinese mainland and Taiwan cooperated on 10,678 cases in 2014 under a mutual judical assistance agreement, the Supreme People's Court revealed Tuesday.

Courts across the Taiwan Strait applied for legal documents from the other side and helped each other in investigation of suspects, evidence collection and transfer of items related to crime, the SPC said.

The mainland court delivered 7,089 legal documents to Taiwan last year, and asked Taiwan for 3,190 documents.

A new judicial interpretation in force from Wednesday will regulate mainland courts' recognition of verdicts on civil cases by Taiwan courts. The interpretation specifies the range of civil cases entitled to recognition and clearly states that verdicts by Taiwan courts, once recognized by mainland courts, have the same effect in the mainland as verdicts made by mainland courts.

The two sides signed an agreement on mutual judicial assistance in 2009. Endi