E. China high court goes online via Alibaba

Alibaba has joined with the higher court of east China's Zhejiang Province to launch an online court for e-commerce disputes on Tuesday.

The court specializes in disputes in e-commerce, copyright and online financial services. All procedures from initiating a lawsuit to carrying out the sentence can be done on the website at www.yuncourt.com.

During the court's trial run that began late August, it received 406 cases, of which eight have been resolved, 58 are being mediated, 22 being investigated and 115 being reviewed.

The court can use Alibaba's big data to improve the efficiency of e-commerce related cases. It can also help trial transparency and avoid wrong or contradictory sentences, Xu Jie, deputy chief of Zhejiang Higher People's Court, said.

Alibaba has also been working with Zhejiang's higher court in judicial auctions since 2012. In the first nine months of the year, courts in Zhejiang auctioned over 11,000 items with a value of 23.7 billion yuan (about 3.7 billion U.S. dollars) at Taobao.com, China's top e-commerce platform under Alibaba group, saving 500 million yuan of commission fee.

More than 1,000 Chinese courts are auctioning goods at Taobao.com. Enditem