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People's Republic of China (PRC) People's Court is the judicial organ of the state. People's Republic of China (PRC) has set up special people's courts in the Supreme People's Court, local people's courts at various levels and military courts. People's Republic of China (PRC) People's Court is the judicial organ of the state. People's Republic of China (PRC) has set up special people's courts in the Supreme People's Court, local people's courts at various levels and military courts. The Supreme People's Court is the highest judicial organ. The Supreme People's Court supervises the trial work of local people's courts at all levels and special people's courts, and the people's courts at higher levels supervise the trial work of people's courts at lower levels. The Supreme People's Court is responsible to the National People's Congress and the NPC Standing Committee. Local people's courts at all levels are responsible to the organs of state power that produced them.
The court is a state organ generally established in all countries of the world. Punish criminals mainly through trial activities, solve social contradictions and disputes, and safeguard fairness and justice.
1. Higher People's Court
Higher people's courts include: provincial higher people's courts, autonomous region higher people's courts and municipal higher people's courts. The Higher People's Court shall establish criminal courts, civil courts and economic courts, and other courts may be established if necessary.
To hear the following cases according to law:
1, a case of first instance under its jurisdiction as stipulated by laws and decrees;
2. Cases of first instance transferred for trial by lower people's courts;
3. Appeals and protests against judgments and rulings of lower people's courts;
4, the people's Procuratorate in accordance with the trial supervision procedures to hear the protest cases.
2. Intermediate People's Court
Intermediate people's courts include: intermediate people's courts established by provinces and autonomous regions according to regions, intermediate people's courts established by municipalities directly under the central government, intermediate people's courts of cities under the jurisdiction of provinces and autonomous regions, and intermediate people's courts of autonomous prefectures. The Intermediate People's Court shall set up criminal courts, civil courts and economic courts, and other courts may be set up as necessary.
To hear the following cases according to law:
1, a case of first instance under its jurisdiction as stipulated by laws and decrees;
2. Cases of first instance transferred for trial by grassroots people's courts;
3 appeals and protests against the judgments and rulings of the grassroots people's courts;
4, the people's Procuratorate in accordance with the trial supervision procedures to hear the protest cases.
When the intermediate people's court considers that the criminal and civil cases it accepts are serious and should be tried by the people's court at a higher level, it may request that they be transferred to the people's court at a higher level for trial.