In April of 20 15, the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province decided that three grass-roots courts in Xihu District, Binjiang District and Yuhang District of Hangzhou and Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court would conduct online court trials of e-commerce, in which Xihu District Court tried internet financial disputes and electronic supervision cases, Binjiang District Court tried intellectual property disputes, Yuhang District Court tried online transaction disputes and Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court tried appeals of the above disputes.
As of April this year, the e-commerce online court has handled nearly 20,000 disputes involving online shopping and online payment. With the continuous accumulation of experience, 15 courts in Zhejiang province have joined the online court platform. E-commerce online court has realized the networking of all litigation links, such as prosecution, mediation, filing (jurisdictional objection), proof, cross-examination, trial and judgment, making it possible to solve online disputes without leaving home.
In addition, as the foundation of Hangzhou Internet Court, Hangzhou Railway Transport Court has been constantly changing itself in recent years. The transformation of railway court based on physical link and displacement also opened the prelude of internet court based on data link and information. It laid the foundation for the establishment of an Internet court in Hangzhou. It can be described as the previous life of Hangzhou Internet Court.
In April this year, the Supreme Court approved the Hangzhou Railway Transport Court to have centralized jurisdiction over five types of network-related cases in Hangzhou. From May/KLOC-0 to June 20th this year, the court * * * received 1 896 applications for Internet-related cases, and officially filed 1446 cases.
At present, the online litigation platform of Hangzhou Railway Transport Court has set up online court, case inquiry, mediation service, lawyer service, intelligent trial, similar cases and other columns, and briefly introduced the business process and other information. According to its website information, the main cases currently accepted by the platform are: e-commerce transaction disputes, e-commerce copyright infringement lawsuits, e-commerce micro-loan lawsuits, contract disputes, trademark infringement disputes, and traffic liability disputes.
A lawyer from a law firm in Beijing has long been dealing with the court system in Hangzhou. According to him, it is the established goal of the central judicial reform to transform the railway court into a cross-administrative court to hear special cases. In recent years, Hangzhou Railway Court has also made a positive transformation attempt in this respect. Since 20 16, a pilot transformation involving cross-regional jurisdiction and trial of intellectual property rights, internet cases and some administrative cases has been carried out.
From the first half of last year, Hangzhou Railway Court began to undertake intellectual property cases in Hangzhou, such as some intellectual property cases in suburban counties of Hangzhou originally handled by Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court. "The Hangzhou Railway Court currently has a group of judges with outstanding trial ability in intellectual property cases."
Deputy Director of Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law said that the newly established Hangzhou Internet Court is essentially different from the previous e-commerce courts: in addition to e-commerce disputes, the Internet Court also accepts Internet infringement, Internet trademarks, unfair competition on the Internet, Internet content dissemination, and even criminal cases, with a wider scope. Moreover, the model of Internet court can also be popularized, and it is likely to be replicated in other city courts.