I received a short message from Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing today. Is it true?/You don't say.

Beijing Municipal People's Court: ο1ο—58417 з1.

Beijing Municipal People's Court: ο1ο—58417 з1.

The people's courts adopt a collegiate system in handling cases. When the people's court tries a case of first instance, it shall be composed of judges or judges and people's jurors. Simple civil cases, minor criminal cases and cases otherwise stipulated by law may be tried by a single judge. The people's court shall try cases of appeal and protest by a collegial panel of judges. The collegial panel shall be presided over by a judge appointed by the president or the president. When the president or the presiding judge participates in the trial of a case, he shall personally serve as the presiding judge. People's courts at all levels throughout the country have set up judicial committees and practiced democratic centralism. The Judicial Committee is the leading group of the court, whose main task is to sum up the trial experience and discuss major or difficult cases and other issues related to the trial work. Members of the judicial committees of local people's courts at various levels shall be appointed and removed by the chairman of the people's congress at the corresponding level; Members of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court shall be appointed and removed by President the Supreme People's Court at the request of NPC Standing Committee. The meetings of the judicial committees of the people's courts at all levels shall be presided over by the president, and the procurator-general of the people's procuratorate at the corresponding level may attend. The courts hold meetings to study the trial work, and the people's courts try cases, and the system of two trials as the final instance is implemented. With regard to the judgment or ruling of a case of first instance made by local people's courts at various levels, the parties may appeal to the people's court at the next higher level in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law, and the people's procuratorate may lodge a protest with the people's court at the next higher level in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law. A judgment or ruling of a case of first instance by a local people's court at various levels shall have legal effect if the parties concerned do not appeal or the people's procuratorate does not protest during the appeal period. The judgments and orders of the Intermediate People's Court, the Higher People's Court, the Supreme People's Court in the second instance and the Supreme People's Court in the first instance are all final, that is, legally effective judgments and orders. Except for the death penalty pronounced in the Supreme People's Court according to law, it shall be reported to the Supreme People's Court for approval. If the presidents of the people's courts at all levels find errors in ascertaining facts or applying laws in legally effective judgments and rulings, they must submit them to the judicial committee for handling. The Supreme People's Court has the right to send back or instruct the people's courts at lower levels to retry the legally effective judgments and rulings of the people's courts at all levels. If the people's courts at higher levels find that there are indeed mistakes, they have the right to send back or instruct the people's courts at lower levels to retry. The Supreme People's Procuratorate has the right to lodge a protest against the legally effective judgments and rulings of people's courts at all levels, and the people's procuratorate at a higher level has the right to lodge a protest when it finds that the legally effective judgments and rulings of people's courts at lower levels are indeed wrong. The people's courts at all levels shall seriously and responsibly handle the complaints made by the parties against the legally effective judgments and rulings. When the people's court considers that the main facts of the case prosecuted by the people's procuratorate are unclear, the evidence is insufficient or there are illegal circumstances, it may return it to the people's procuratorate for supplementary investigation or notify the people's procuratorate to correct the mistakes. If the parties think that the judge has an interest in the case or other relations can not make a fair trial, they have the right to ask the judge to withdraw. Whether the judge withdraws or not is decided by the president of this court. If a judge thinks that he has an interest in the case or has other relations that need to be avoided, he shall report to the president of the court for decision. The Supreme People's Court is responsible and reports to the National People's Congress and the NPC Standing Committee. Local people's courts at various levels are responsible to the people's congresses at the corresponding levels and their standing committees and report on their work. The trial work of the people's courts at lower levels is supervised and led by the people's courts at higher levels.