System Of The People's Court

The system of people's court is a judicial system with Chinese characteristics which is also an good tradition of the people's judicature. The people's court is the agency which is set up by grass-roots court according to principles like demography,area and situation of cases under one's jurisdiction. Its functions is to handle the general civil case and slight criminal case, guide the work of propagating legal system and people's mediation committeeThe purpose of setting up The system of people's court is to reflect "two convenience" principle which are convenient sue and convenient judge. This system has got the fast development since the establishment in 1954 Up to 1998, concerning redundancies and dysfunction of regional people's court all over the country, a series of remove and merge were taken place. As the grass-roots court unit, the people's court handles a great number of cases efficiently and justly and played a very important role in the process of the construction of socialistic legal system. At the same time, The system of people's court also has some disadvantages which was specially appeared in the aspect such as a high percentage of "one judge court","two judge court", a very common phenomenon of "judge case by relationship", a situation of localized jury work. This situation has cause a huge complain from the masses and public response as well as a impact of the socialistic legal system and credibility of the nation.From the empirical perspective, This thesis has a overall view of the current situation of the people's court and analyzed the reasoning behind it, as well as compared and absorbed court at the grassroots level and process of foreign legal system so as to bring out the basic contents and principles of the people's court. Based on above analysis, the people's court was defined to be a specialized court which use a refined process to handle the general civil case and slight criminal case, has a function of small claims court,magistrates courts, as well as perfecting corresponding process of small claims procedure and simple criminal procedure.