This book includes focal and vital cases tried by presiding justices, guiding cases from the Supreme People¿s Court, and cases discussed at the Joint Meetings of Presiding Judges from various tribunals. This book is divided into three sections, including Cases by Justices, Guiding Cases, and Typical Cases, which will introduce readers to Chinese legal processes, legal methodology, and ideology in an intuitive, clear, and accurate manner. This book presents cases selected by the trial departments of the Supreme People¿s Court of China from their concluded cases. In order to give full weight to the legal value and social function of cases from the Supreme People¿s Court, and to achieve the goal of ¿serving the trial practices, serving economic and social development, serving legal education and legal scholarship, serving legal exchanges among Chinese and foreign legal communities, and serving the rule of law in Chinä, the China Applied Jurisprudence Institute, with the approval of the Supreme People¿s Court, opts to publish Selected Cases from the Supreme People¿s Court of the People¿s Republic of China in both Chinese and English, for domestic and overseas distribution.