Bang to rights

Beijing's First Intermediate People's Court heard 978 cases involving alleged consumer rights violations between 2005 and 2010, with an average increase of 23 percent year-on-year. About 676 cases were found in favor of consumers. On Monday the court released a list of the most prominent cases. Here are just a few:

A diner complained after a restaurant charged him an extra 100 yuan in September 2006 for opening his bottle of baijiu, a Chinese spirit. Judges upheld his claim and ordered the restaurant owners to return the money and apologize.

A shopper sued a store called e-World Market based in Zhongguancun after he was sold a fake cell phone for 6,900 yuan in August 2007. The trader was ordered to pay him twice that amount in compensation.