The total amount of court trial broadcasts exceeds 10 million on China Trials Online.
On the morning of Dec. 4, the Nanjing Environmental Resources Court of Jiangsu Province heard the ecological damages case of the public interest litigation in public, with the People's Procuratorate of Nanjing Municipality as the prosecutor and Wang Yulin (王玉林) as the defendant. The case trial was broadcast live throughout the whole proceeding on China Judgments Online, marking that the total amount of live court trial broadcasts on China Judgments Online exceeded 10 million.
In recent years, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has consecutively issued the Several Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Three Platforms for Judicial Openness (關(guān)于推進(jìn)司法公開(kāi)三大平臺(tái)建設(shè)的若干意見(jiàn)), Several Provisions on Audio and Video Recordings in Court Trials by People’s Courts (關(guān)于人民法院庭審錄音錄像的若干規(guī)定) and other normative documents, requiring that all cases to be heard in public by the people’s courts should, in general, be broadcast live online as of 1 Jul. 2016 .
Zhao Jinshan (趙晉山), director of the Adjudication Management Office of the SPC, introduced that the SPC is preparing relevant judicial interpretations to specify the applicable scope of cases for live broadcasts, so as to strengthen the protection for citizens’ privacy rights, trade secrets and such special subjects as minors, victims and witnesses that may be involved in the court trial broadcasts.
Contributors: Yanru Chen 陳彥茹
