On January 14, 2020, Supreme People's Court held a press conference to release the 22^nd to 24^th batches of Guiding Cases. The 24^th batch of Guiding Cases, altogether 13 cases, are all belong to environmental sources cases, which collectively show the results of the environmental resources judicial work of the People's Courts and condense the highlights of environmental resources trial development in China.

 

Among 13 cases, from the perspective of litigation patterns, they include private interest litigation, public interest litigation and ecological and environmental damages litigation; in terms of liability manners, they involve criminal liability, civil liability, administrative responsibility and combination of three manners; in light of object of protection, they cover environmental elements and natural resources like atmosphere, water, soil, mining industry, forestry, fishery, which contain environmental pollution, ecological damage etc. All these cases have distinctive characteristics and high recognition.

 

Jin Rui, as a professional law firm in the field of energy, environment and resources in China, pays special attention to environmental public welfare. Over the past four years, Jin Rui has been entrusted by a number of institutions, including the China Environmental Protection Foundation, Shandong Environmental Protection Foundation, Beijing Chaoyang District Friends of Nature Environment Research Institute, to bring nearly 30 environmental civil public interest litigations have achieved good results and social effects. Through the environmental civil public interest litigations, Jin Rui has effectively curbed the harm to the ecological environment caused by the continuous excessive emissions of enterprises, and promoted the company to take social responsibilities into account while producing and developing its own interests, and actively take measures to repair the damaged ecological environment and  minimize the risk of environmental pollution as much as possible via technical transformation and enhancement of monitoring.

 

The issuing of 24^th batch of Guiding Cases by Supreme People's Court provided further guidance for maintaining the ecological environment through legal means. Jin Rui lawyers will continue to devote in environmental public welfare and contribute to the construction of a beautiful China and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.