legal ground
Article 111th of the Civil Procedure Law stipulates that the people's court may impose a fine or detention according to the seriousness of the case if a litigant participant or other person commits one of the following acts; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(1) Forging or destroying important evidence, which hinders the people's court from hearing a case;
(2) using violence, threats or bribes to prevent witnesses from testifying or instigating, bribing or coercing others to commit perjury;
(3) Hiding, transferring, selling off or destroying the property that has been sealed up or detained, or transferring the property that has been counted and ordered to be kept;
(4) Insulting, slandering, framing, beating or retaliating against judicial personnel, participants in litigation, witnesses, translators, expert witnesses, inspectors and assisting executors;
(5) Obstructing judicial personnel from performing their duties by violence, threat or other means;
(6) Refusing to perform a legally effective judgment or ruling of the people's court.
The people's court may impose a fine or detention on a unit that commits one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.