Deputies' suggestions are an important channel for state organs to absorb public opinion and gather people's wisdom. In order to promote the modernization of trial management, the deputies performed their duties and responsibilities in accordance with the law, and actively offered suggestions and suggestions. Strengthen the construction of basic level courts, pay attention to the public's right to litigate, improve judicial evaluation indicators, and improve the quality of trial ......Behind the proposals, the wisdom and sweat of the deputies are all condensed, and they are full of the thoughts and hopes of the people.
The people have called for something, and I have responded to it. Over the past year, the Supreme People's Court has conscientiously accepted supervision, deeply practiced whole-process people's democracy, and effectively promoted the transformation of achievements by conscientiously handling the opinions and suggestions of deputies, and handed over a judicial answer sheet that satisfies the people.
Strengthen the construction of the team, and consolidate the foundation for the development of trial work
The key to the quality and effectiveness of trial work lies in the grassroots level.
Grassroots courts are at the forefront of serving the masses and shoulder the important mission of maintaining social stability at the grassroots level and protecting the rights and interests of the people's livelihood.
The deputies actively took the pulse of the grassroots level and put forward many pertinent and constructive opinions and suggestions on how to improve the quality and efficiency of the court's work.
Through investigations, discussions, and visits, NPC deputy Shen Changjian put forward a proposal on reducing the pressure on grassroots courts in handling cases, holding that it is necessary to appropriately increase the number of special political and legal personnel in light of economic and social development and the actual workload of the people's courts, and at the same time increase the allocation of trial support personnel, so as to effectively reduce the administrative work burden of judges and improve the level and efficiency of case handling.
Yan Jianguo, a deputy to the National People's Congress, put forward in his proposal: "It is necessary to improve the remuneration of grassroots judges and grassroots judicial workers, care for the physical and mental health of judges, stabilize the grassroots judicial contingent, and strengthen professional security."
In recent years, the people's courts have continuously strengthened the construction of talent teams for grassroots courts, providing a strong guarantee for promoting the high-quality development of court work. The "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Management of Judges' Assistants in the People's Courts" have been formulated and promulgated to lay a solid foundation for reserve talent for the ranks of judges. Earnestly implement the "Guiding Opinions on the Dynamic Adjustment of the Amount of Law in People's Courts Below the Provincial Level (for Trial Implementation)", optimize the allocation of judicial resources, and promote the further tilt of court personnel to the grassroots level and the front line of case handling.
The software and hardware construction of the litigation service halls and basic level people's courtrooms of some basic level courts is lagging behind, and there are problems such as old houses, unreasonable space settings, and low level of intelligent equipment. Pang Guoming, a deputy to the National People's Congress, suggested that investment in informatization construction should be increased, software and hardware facilities should be improved, and the modernization of courts should be accelerated.
The people's courts attach great importance to the work of ensuring the funding and material equipment of the basic level courts, especially for the basic level courts in old revolutionary base areas, remote areas, ethnic minority areas, and underdeveloped areas, and giving key guarantees through means such as coordinating the financial adjustment structure, ensuring key points, and ensuring expenditures.
In recent years, the people's courts have continued to set up courses related to informatization application training, focusing on improving the ability of court officers and police to apply science and technology, accelerating the pace of informatization construction of grassroots courts, and extending the achievements of smart court construction to the forefront of litigation services and the end of judicial trials.
Unify adjudication standards and improve the quality of adjudication
The Supreme People's Court has ...... through the formulation of judicial interpretations, the formulation of normative documents, the compilation of guiding cases, the establishment of a legal answer network, and the initiation of the establishment of a people's court case databaseA standardized and efficient system for the application of law and a unified problem-solving system is gradually taking shape.
Unifying standards for the application of law and standardizing the exercise of discretionary power is related to the protection of the lawful rights and interests of the parties and the realization of social fairness and justice. Cheng Kaimin, a deputy to the National People's Congress, said that the Supreme People's Court should give full play to its exemplary and leading role in the unification of the application of law.
The Case Guidance System is an important part of the socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics, and is also an important mechanism for solidly advancing efforts to unify the application of law.
The Supreme People's Court has earnestly strengthened work on case guidance, solidly advancing the uniform application of law, promoting the correct implementation of the law, and using the "small cuts" of case guidance to resolve difficult problems in judicial practice. By the end of 2023, a total of 224 GCs in 39 batches had been released.
Cases are the litmus test of the rule of law. Today, in promoting the construction of the rule of law in China, cases have been given the opportunity to shine. With the increasing impact of cases on social life and the construction of the rule of law, everyone's attention to cases has become increasingly invested and deepened, including Qi Xiumin, a deputy to the National People's Congress.
As a specific measure for the reform of the judicial system, the Case Guidance System plays a role in promoting the establishment of a fair, efficient, and authoritative judicial system. In her proposal, Qi Xiumin proposed that a compilation of guiding cases should be formulated, and that the compilation of cases should be combined with the publication with the help of modern information technology to facilitate retrieval and application.
The Supreme People's Court has studied and incorporated the Recommendation, stating that it will further strengthen the application of Guiding Cases, and in accordance with the requirements of the establishment of a platform for the uniform application of law, when the judges undertaking the case conduct a search for similar cases, they should first search for the currently effective Guiding Cases, and if the retrieved similar cases are Guiding Cases, they shall refer to them for adjudication. Further improve and enhance the level of informatization in work such as case recommendation, review, retrieval, application, and evaluation, and actively give play to the role of information platforms such as the China Judicial Case Network, the China Judgment Network, the People's Court Case Database, and Legal Letters, to integrate resources and form a joint force.
In addition, the Supreme People's Court will further improve the work on Guiding Cases in conjunction with the requirements of thematic education, promote the resolution of difficult problems through the handling of deputies' suggestions, achieve high-quality development of Guiding Cases work, ensure the uniform implementation of the law, actively respond to the judicial needs of the people, and strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.
Improve the setting of indicators, and establish a scientific system of indicators for the management of trial quality
To modernize trial work, trial management is the guarantee.
How should the court team be managed? How to systematically advance and take root in trial management measures?
Hu Xusheng, a deputy to the National People's Congress, suggested that it is necessary to improve a scientific, reasonable, coordinated and unified system of law enforcement and judicial evaluation indicators, and pay attention to the quality of individual cases and social effects.
The Supreme People's Court attaches great importance to the supervision and management of case quality. In June 2023, after extensive research and demonstration, the Supreme People's Court formally established a people's court trial quality management index system focusing on the three dimensions of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness, and organized a pilot project in 11 provinces (municipalities directly under the Central Government) in July 2023, a trial trial in courts across the country in October 2023, and officially implemented in January 2024.
Since the trial implementation of the index system, the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the people's courts' adjudication work have been significantly improved.
In the next step, the Supreme People's Court will strengthen guidance for local courts to carry out performance appraisal work, and guide people's courts at all levels to respect objective laws, rationally use indicators, and scientifically formulate policies through continuous improvement of a more scientific and rational system of trial quality management indicators, so as to promote the healthy, standardized, and orderly development of trial enforcement work.
The issue of "not filing a case" at the end of the month, quarter and end of the year has always been the focus of attention from all walks of life.
When inspecting the work of the courts in Shandong, Li Jun, a deputy to the National People's Congress, expressed the hope that the courts would optimize the evaluation mechanism and avoid giving rise to such a phenomenon of "not filing cases."
Filing a case is a prerequisite for trial, and filing a case in accordance with the law is the beginning of a fair judiciary.
The Supreme People's Court has taken effective measures to resolutely eliminate the phenomenon of "not filing cases" at the end of the month, the end of the quarter, and the end of the year. Deeply advance the reform of the trial quality management indicator system, clarifying that the annual settlement ratio and case completion rate indicators are no longer used, but that indicators such as the case completion rate within the trial time limit, the rate of change in the trial time limit, and the average time to close cases are comprehensively used to urge and improve the efficiency of case handling, and systematically solve all kinds of disguised "non-filing" problems. Strengthen case filing supervision through the early warning system for case filing deviations, the 12368 litigation service**, and the satisfaction evaluation system, establish a notification system for typical cases of "not filing a case", and correct a number of "non-filing" problems.
In addition, the Supreme People's Court also issued the "Notice on Resolutely Doing a Good Job in Case Filing by the End of 2023", requiring the people's courts at all levels to strictly implement the requirements of the case filing and registration system with the awareness of "if I am suing", and make it clear that those who do not accept cases in violation of regulations at the end of the year will be seriously investigated for responsibility in accordance with law and discipline, and effectively ensure that the parties exercise their right to sue in accordance with the law.
At present, in response to the problem of irregularities in case filing work, the Supreme People's Court is drafting the "Work Specifications for Case Filing Window of the People's Courts", which clearly stipulates the irregularities that the public has complained about a lot, and comprehensively raises the level of standardization, regularization, and facilitation of case filing work. (Reporter Mo Xiaoxue).
*: People's Court Daily.
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