Hubei Court: Services to protect epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development bear fruit

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The first in the national court system to explore the establishment and implementation of the “economic impact assessment system for cases involving enterprises”, advocate the parties through WeChat small programs and other litigation matters such as filing and online court …… reporter recently learned from the Hubei Provincial High People’s Court, the province The court system’s practical experience and theoretical research on the “integrated promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development” has led to a series of innovative results, which has attracted the attention of the industry.

After the outbreak of Newcastle pneumonia in 2020, Hubei, with Wuhan as the focus, was the main battlefield in the national epidemic prevention and control battle, and was the province with the heaviest epidemic and the longest control time. In that year, Hubei overcame difficulties and resumed growth in all major economic indicators.

In the context of the integrated promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, justice faced many challenges. Hubei courts actively engaged in research on cases related to the epidemic and undertook a major judicial research project of the Supreme People’s Court in 2020, “Research on providing judicial services and guarantee for the integrated promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development”, covering basic theory, criminal trial, civil trial, administrative trial, retrial review, dispute resolution mechanism The research covers basic theory, criminal trial, civil trial, administrative trial, retrial review, dispute resolution mechanism and other fields.

The Hubei High Court also formed a joint research group with Zhongnan University of Economics and Law to carry out theoretical and empirical research, which finally resulted in the research result of “Exploration of China’s Judicial Model to Promote Epidemic Prevention and Control and Economic and Social Development” (hereinafter referred to as “Exploration of Judicial Model”), which was published in the core journal “Law Review”.

The Judicial Model Inquiry introduces that in the process of serving to promote epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, Hubei courts have formed four kinds of work mechanisms that can be replicated and extended.

First, the innovation of trial mechanism, including the construction of responsive trial mechanism aiming at balancing the interests of people involved in epidemic cases, emergency trial mechanism aiming at quick trial and conclusion of various epidemic-related cases, and policy implementation trial mechanism aiming at serving epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.

The second is the improvement of procedural mechanism, including the optimization of the procedure of various non-litigation solutions such as the governance of the source of litigation, the connection between litigation and mediation and the comprehensive management of the epidemic.

Third is the strengthening of the security mechanism, mainly reflected in the wisdom of the judicial security and synergy of multiple construction, to “cloud platform” “cloud computing” “cloud connection” as the representative of the technology means in the judicial The promotion and application of technology tools in the field of justice.

The fourth is the sound service mechanism, mainly involving the judicial service operation mechanism, high-level personnel training mechanism, the construction of diversified and efficient material security mechanism.

The person in charge of the Hubei High Court said that in the face of the new situation of promoting epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, the court will continue to give full play to the role of the trial function, in the judicial concept and functional positioning of the two levels of transformation and development, and strive to escort the “dual integration”.