Recently, Ms. Zhang Lei, a reporter from the Beijing Evening News News Editing Center, visited Beijing Gaopeng Law Firm. Lawyer Liu Peng of our firm was invited to serve as the keynote speaker of the "Lawyers Say Cases" column of the newspaper. He accepted an exclusive interview and introduced to Ms. Zhang Lei in detail the specific process of a relatively typical civil litigation case he had represented as a team member led by senior partner lawyer Zhang Zheng.

The case is a dispute over a Maotai liquor sales contract between a Beijing Maotai liquor dealer and a hotel. The hotel was punished by the Chaoyang Branch of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce for storing fake Maotai liquor in its warehouse, so it claimed compensation for all its economic losses, including administrative fines, on the grounds that the fake liquor was purchased from the dealer. Our lawyer team, Zhang Zheng, represented the dealer in court to respond to the lawsuit, formulated a rigorous and thorough response strategy, targeted arrangements for the provision of evidence and cross-examination, and made a court presentation. The agent team issued defense opinions on key issues such as the identity difference between the hotel as a catering service provider and ordinary consumers, the different rules of the consumer rights protection law and the food safety law, the product quality law, and the high probability of evidence. The court trial has achieved remarkable results. Eventually, the hotel withdrew the lawsuit before the court made a judgment, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the parties.

On July 12, 2016, the "Lawyers Say the Case" column of the Beijing Evening News published a report written by reporter Zhang Lei based on the above interview: "Who is the person who made and sold fake Maotai liquor?".

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