Quality Trial, Judicial Capacity To A New Level.

"Now the court!"

At 9 a.m. on June 11, 2014, in the Supreme People's court, the court was solemn and solemn. With the trial judge Luo Dongchuan beating the hammer in his hand, the trial of an appeal case involving a foreign shareholder's capital contribution dispute began.

In the auditorium, the foreign envoys of various skin listened attentively.

This is the first time that the Supreme People's court has invited foreign envoys to attend the Supreme Court in China to hear cases.

After more than 3 hours of trial, the court concluded the case in court.

"This open trial shows that China's judiciary is very open, and the quality of the whole trial and the lawyers' debate is very high, which can be comparable with any other country in the world."

A foreign counsellor gave a thumbs up to the entire trial process and its openness.

This is a miniature of the Chinese courts' fair and efficient handling of foreign-related commercial maritime cases and winning widespread recognition and respect from the international and domestic communities.

In the past five years, courts at all levels have been closely related to the professional, technical and international characteristics of foreign-related commercial maritime trial cases. They have continuously explored and followed their own laws, followed the path of quality trials, exercised jurisdiction over foreign-related commercial maritime affairs according to law, correctly applied international treaties and applicable laws, respected international practices, and paid equal attention to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and foreign litigants, thus effectively creating a good rule of law environment for opening up to the outside world.

This is a set of data: from January 2010 to June 2014, the national courts at all levels concluded 287262 foreign-related commercial and maritime cases involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, an increase of 41.48% over the previous year, involving more than 100 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania and North and South America.

Since 2010, the country has added new products.

There are 36 intermediate courts and 143 grassroots courts in the jurisdiction of the case. Additional 7 Maritime Courts such as Harbin and Shasha are sent to the courts. The range of coverage ranges from the north to Heilongjiang and from the south to the South China Sea Islands to all ports and waters under the jurisdiction of China. The jurisdiction of foreign-related commercial cases is more reasonable.

In the new context of opening up to the outside world, the Supreme People's court has made appropriate adjustments to expand the centralized jurisdiction and special jurisdiction system according to the time, and the four courts of the high court of Guangdong and Inner Mongolia have taken the lead in the trial of international and domestic arbitration judicial review cases, and the quality of arbitration cases has improved significantly. The maritime courts of Tianjin and other maritime courts have established a number of circuit points and maritime trial liaison points in the inland waterless port according to the development trend of logistics industry and outbound port yard extending inland, and Shandong, Guangdong, Hainan, Liaoning, Zhejiang and other provinces.

We should carry out the pilot work of "two in one", and generalize the cases of maritime administrative cases, maritime administrative compensation cases, land contaminated sea areas and disputes over the sea area, and marine development and utilization disputes in the province, which are under the jurisdiction of the maritime courts and give full play to the advantages of maritime courts in the cross regional jurisdiction.

The innovation and perfection of the judicial work mechanism.

The optimization has promoted the judicial capacity of foreign-related commercial maritime affairs in China to a new level.