Legal basis: Article 111 of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China. If a litigation participant or other person commits any of the following acts, the people's court may impose a fine or detain him or her according to the seriousness of the case; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law: (1) Forging or destroying important evidence to prevent the people's court from hearing the case; ( 2) Using violence, threats, or bribery to prevent witnesses from testifying or instigating, bribing, or coercing others into giving false testimony; (3) Hiding, transferring, selling, or destroying property that has been sealed or seized, or transferring property that has been counted or ordered to be kept property; (4) Insulting, slandering, framing, beating or retaliating against judicial personnel, litigation participants, witnesses, translators, appraisers, surveyors and assisting executioners; (5) Using violence, threats or other Impeding judicial personnel from performing their duties; (6) Refusing to perform the legally effective judgments and rulings of the People's Court. The people's court may impose a fine or detain any unit that commits one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be investigated in accordance with the law.