The Project Team on “the Assessment of the Shanghai Experience of Judicial Reform” Carries out Special Research and Investigation in Shanghai

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On May 18-20, Team of the CASS- Shanghai Academy Joint Project on “the Assessment of the Shanghai Experience of Judicial Reform” visited Shanghai to carry out special investigation and research on the implementation of pilot program on judicial reform in Shanghai. Members of the project team included Professor Wang Minyuan, Professor Xu Hui, Professor Ma Ke and Professor Sun Nanxiang. During their investigation and research in Shanghai, members of project team visited the Higher People’s Court of Shanghai Municipality and the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Shanghai Municipality, and the People’s Procuratorate of Shanghai Municipality and attended a colloquium with some judges and procurators in Shanghai, including Mr. Huang Xiangqing, Vice President of the Higher People’s Court of Shanghai Municipality, Mr. Zhang, Deputy Director of the Political Department of the Court, Mr. Gu Weiqiang, President of the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Shanghai Municipality, Mr. Zhantai Renyi, Director of the Enforcement Bureau of the Court, and Mr. Gong Peihua, Chief Procurator of the People’s Procuratorate of Shanghai Municipality. At the colloquium, the judges and procurators introduced to the members of the project team their experiences in the implementation of the pilot program on judicial reform in Shanghai with respect to personnel allocation, operation of power, management and supervision, supporting safeguards, and appraisal and incentive mechanisms and exchange opinions with members of the project team on such issues as trial of cases by the president of court, professional judges’ meeting, operation mechanism of the trial committee, trial supervision and administration mechanism, guarantee of performance of duty by young judges, and the extent of lawyer’s participation in the trial of the second instance.