Chinanews.com Shanghai, March 13th, title: Young judge Zhu Jun: "geek" judges' magic weapon is "smart" to optimize the business environment
Chinanews reporter Li Shuzheng
There are several monitor screens on the desk, and various computer technology and programming books on the bookshelves... In the eyes of other colleagues, Zhu Jun, director of the Executive Bureau of the People's Court of Putuo District, Shanghai (hereinafter referred to as Putuo Court), is a technical youth and a A "geek" judge.
"I majored in law, but I have always been very interested in computer technology, and sometimes I develop some small programs myself." Zhu Jun said.
Relying on the digital "wisdom" magic weapon of this "geek" judge, the Putuo Court has improved the court's trial efficiency while optimizing its internal procedures, and helped to build a legal business environment.
Relying on the "geek" judge's digital "wisdom" magic weapon, the Putuo court improved the court's trial efficiency while optimizing its internal procedures.
Photo courtesy of the People's Court of Putuo District, Shanghai
Zhu Jun, who loves to delve into digital technology, uses technology to improve the efficiency of case handling and provides colleagues with convenient "production tools".
At that time, when the Labor Contract Law was officially implemented, the caseload of the Labor Dispute Collegial Panel of the Putuo Court "blowout"—the judges in the court not only held four or five court sessions every day, but also spent a lot of time calculating overtime pay and social insurance premiums equal amount.
Faced with the complicated calculation workload, Zhu Jun designed a set of calculation tables and formulas, which can automatically calculate the laborer's working years and compensation amount according to the laborer's entry time and resignation time.
This small tool greatly reduces the workload and error rate.
"This gadget is still in use today and has been perfected by young people since then."
After serving as the chief judge of the Trial Supervision Division, Zhu Jun has a greater platform to display his technical talents.
The trial supervision division is a three-in-one department created after the judicial reform. It integrates multiple functions such as trial management, trial supervision, and information research. It can be described as the data center of the court.
In the eyes of other colleagues, Zhu Jun, director of the Executive Bureau of the Shanghai Putuo District People's Court, is a technical youth and a "geek" judge.
Photo courtesy of the People's Court of Putuo District, Shanghai
The rule of law is the best business environment, and the court's litigation process is the most direct carrier for various market players to experience the quality of the business environment.
Promoting the whole process of online case handling is an important measure launched by Shanghai courts to optimize the legal business environment, and the trial supervision court where Zhu Jun was at that time was an important starting point to promote this work.
"At the beginning of the promotion of online case handling, no one was familiar with what items were included in online case handling, and how to realize the entire case process online," said Gong Jie, deputy head of the Trial and Supervision Division of the Putuo Court. Under such circumstances, it shows more inertial thinking that does not cooperate with this newborn business.
Zhu Jun researched and analyzed the online case-handling work plan issued by the Shanghai Higher People's Court (hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai Higher People's Court), learned from the pilot courts, and conducted research by himself... Soon, Zhu Jun took the lead in formulating the online case-handling work rules of the Putuo Court.
At the same time, Zhu Jun not only took the lead in using the new system to work, but also mobilized young judges in various courts to "bring the old with the new" to help older judges accept new technologies.
Under the promotion of Zhu Jun, in 2022, 7 of the 14 indicators of the entire process of Putuo District Court’s online case handling will rank among the top 5 in Shanghai’s grassroots courts; among them, 4 core indicators will rank in the top 5, and the application rate of online court trials will rank first in the city The first place in the basic court.
"If there are rules that adjourn hearings no more than a certain number of times, have these rules been complied with in more than 50% of the cases?" This is an evaluation index of "quality of judicial procedures" in the World Bank's business environment evaluation system, which makes Respondents judge the judicial efficiency of the courts based on their subjective feelings.
"This requires our court to pay great attention to the efficiency of the court session, and try to complete all the procedures in one court session to avoid the burden of litigation for the parties." Zhu Jun said.
Implementing the rules for postponement of hearings is not only conducive to improving the sensitivity of market players, but also an important starting point for improving the ability of judges to control court trials.
"On the one hand, we strictly control the number of trial sessions for each judge through the corresponding statistical platform developed by the Shanghai Higher People's Court, analyze the reasons for those who postponed the trial for non-statutory reasons, and provide special training for young judges on the ability to control court trials; on the other hand , We solve the corresponding problems of pre-court preparation through technological empowerment." Zhu Jun said.
Due to the differences in the litigation capabilities of the parties, many parties need to submit additional evidence multiple times to complete an argument, and the other party also takes a long time to complete the counter-evidence.
Similarly, subject to the pressure of the small number of cases, it is often difficult for judges to schedule appointments.
As a result, a court cycle can take several months.
In this regard, Jun Zhu actively guided the judges to adopt the asynchronous micro-court module newly developed by the Shanghai High Court.
According to Zhu Jun, the asynchronous micro-court breaks through the time and space limitations of the original court trial, and can arrange trial activities for a long period of time. Due to the time limit, a judge can carry out more than a dozen asynchronous micro-court activities simultaneously. Both parties can complete the pre-court evidence exchange and focus gathering work in the asynchronous micro-court. The parties can also use the fragmented time to deal with it, reducing their Time costs.
Let the data run more, and let the business entity run less.
In the opinion of "geek" judge Zhu Jun, "Whether it is the whole process of handling cases online or optimizing the business environment, there is only a time for progress and no time for completion." (End)