Plea bargain
In China, a plea bargaining pilot scheme has been introduced by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 2016. For defendants that faces jail terms of three years or below, agrees to plea guilty voluntarily and agree with prosecutors' crime and sentencing proposals, will be given mitigated punishments.
Southland Corp. v. Keating
In the 1967 "Prima Paint" case the Court had opened the door to more widespread use of arbitration when it adopted the separability principle, compelling arbitration of a claim that a contract had been fraudulently induced. This holds that any challenge to the validity of a contract with an arbitration clause must be heard by the arbitrator first, unless the challenge is to the arbitration clause itself. It creates a legal fiction that two separate contracts exist.