Guangzhou Maritime Court releases the Annual Report on Trial 2014 in a news conference held on the afternoon of 24 April 2015. Attended the conference are more than 50 people of judges from Guangzhou Maritime Court, experts and scholars of maritime law, delegates of port and shipping enterprises, lawyers, and news reporters.
The Annual Report is in eight parts which dedicates to expounding seven major legal issues in the judicial practice in 2014 concerning electronic evidence, cargo delivery without the original B/L, determination of cargo losses, ship collision damages, fund of limitation of liability for maritime claims, maritime administrative proceedings, and fraudulent lawsuits. Guangzhou Maritime Court has taken steps to analyze the causes as well as the anticipated risks of these cases and further provide risk prevention advices in the form of judicial suggestion to guide relevant departments in policy-making and enterprises in business operation.