Supreme Court Tightens Internal Discipline Through Inspection

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, October 08, 2002

Supreme Court Tightens Internal Discipline Through Inspection

China's Supreme People's Court will launch nationwide inspections to check illegal and inappropriate conduct during trials and the enforcement of court orders.

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China's Supreme People's Court will launch nationwide inspections to check illegal and inappropriate conduct during trials and the enforcement of court orders.

Li Yucheng, head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection stationed in the Supreme People's Court, said here Tuesday that the Supreme People's Court and local courts at all levels would first be responsible for self-inspections.

The higher people's courts at provincial or autonomous regional level would be responsible for checking on courts at lower levels and cross-examination, snap inspections and inspections by other means would be organized, Li said.

The Supreme People's Court planned to send five inspection teams to 10 provinces and autonomous regions, he said.

The inspections aimed to tackle abuse of trial and enforcement powers by some judges and law enforcement staff, he said.

The Supreme People's Court attached great importance to maintaining honest and clean courts and had adopted a series of measures to this effect. Li said the Supreme People's Court had built up an effective self-disciplinary mechanism with four regulations enacted within the last five years.

Under those regulations, court staff had to avoid cases where their impartiality was compromised, Li said. The regulations required tightened supervision of all the procedures of trials and the enforcement of the court orders, and also provided guidelines for punishing court staff who violated rules, Li added.

Statistics from the Supreme People's Court show 2,512 court staff were punished for illegal and inappropriate conduct in 1998.

Li said the number had decreased to 1,080 in 2001 and to 378 in the first seven months of this year, but that "the misconduct of court staff still exists and self-discipline still needs to be enhanced".

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