Court rejects man's lawsuit against actress with piercing stare

Zhao Wei, who shot to the stardom after starring in TV drama hit Princess Huanzhu, has been accused of causing emotional distress through her piercing eyes. [Photo/Weibo]

A Shanghai court recently denied a man's lawsuit against a famous actress for staring at him too intensively through a TV drama, according to thepaper.cn.

The Supreme Court of Shanghai said in a news conference on Thursday that the case is not up to the standards for litigation and was not accepted by the court.

"The judge has persuaded the man not to file a lawsuit, and the man accepted the court's decision," said Gu Weiqiang, the deputy president of the Shanghai Supreme Court.

Zhao Wei, the actress who was accused of affecting the man with her "fierce stare", became a household name in China after starring in hit TV drama Princess Huanzhu in 1998.

The rejection came amid of a rise in litigation after a new rule lowered the threshold for bringing a lawsuit.

After the new rule came into effect on May 1, the number of lawsuits jumped by nearly 30 percent across the country in May compared with the same period last year.

In another rejected case, a man claimed one yuan in compensation from the court for hurting his reputation because the judges expelled him from the court due to his misbehavior as an observer.