(Interview with the Two Sessions) Taking the "Zhang Jian Case" as a Mirror, Dean of Anhui Higher Court Talks about Judicial Anti-corruption
Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 6th, title: "Zhang Jian case" as a mirror to the president of Anhui High Court on judicial anti-corruption
Reporter Zhang Su
Judicial corruption is extremely harmful to judicial fairness and judicial credibility.
During the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, Dong Kaijun, party secretary and president of the Anhui Higher People's Court, said in an interview with reporters that he is working hard to use Zhang Jian's case as a mirror to strengthen the supervision and control of judicial power.
In March last year, Zhang Jian, former party secretary and president of the Anhui Higher People's Court, and former deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, was prosecuted by the prosecutors according to law.
Public information shows that Zhang Jian was born in September 1955 and served as Party Secretary and President of the Anhui Higher People's Court from January 2013 to January 2018.
According to a report on the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Zhang Jian was accused of law enforcement violations, crimes for personal gains, intervention in judicial law enforcement activities, and even violations of regulations to help criminals involved in gangs with commutation, parole, retrial and sentence changes, undermining judicial justice and damaging judicial credibility. In the execution of penalties, trial of cases, business operations, etc., they use the convenience of their positions to make profits for others, and illegally receive huge amounts of property.
"In recent years, the judicial field has been prone to corruption, which has had a serious negative impact on the image of the people's court and the image of the court team. As far as the Anhui court is concerned, the occurrence of Zhang Jian's serious violations of discipline and laws has drawn a particularly profound lesson."
Dong Kaijun stated that in order to deeply learn the lessons of Zhang Jian's case and further purify and optimize the political ecology of the courts, the Anhui court took Zhang Jian's case as a negative example, deployed in the province's courts to deepen the "three case-based" warning education, and promote comprehensive and strict governance in depth. The Party and the courts shall be governed strictly, strengthen the supervision and control of judicial power, promote strict and fair justice, and promote the continuous improvement of judicial quality, efficiency and credibility.
He summarized the specific measures as "four efforts."
——Strengthen the leadership of the party group in law enforcement and case handling
“Establish a system and mechanism for the party group to regularly listen to reports on law enforcement and case handling, and all members of the adjudication committee to attend the adjudication committee, implement the leadership of the party group’s law enforcement and case handling work, and ensure that the judicial power is always under the leadership of the party.” He said In 2020, the Anhui Higher Court’s Party Group will conduct a total of 31 special studies on law enforcement and case handling.
-Efforts to standardize the operation of trial power
Dong Kaijun said that in response to the case supervision issue after the reform of the judicial accountability system that is of social concern, a list of judges' trial powers and responsibilities has been formulated, the boundaries of powers and responsibilities have been clarified, and the exercise of power has been organized.
Suppress and consolidate the supervision responsibilities of the president of the court, and further clarify the supervision responsibilities of the president of the court on major divergent cases and procedural matters in case handling. Through the case supervision platform of the presidents of courts across the province, the supervision of cases will be open and transparent, and the whole process will remain traces .
In addition, improve the system of judgment guidelines, compulsory searches for similar cases and related cases, publish reference cases, unify judgment standards, and standardize the discretion of judges.
The Trial Committee of the Anhui Higher People's Court regularly listens to reports on the development and reform of cases, strengthens comprehensive analysis, and issues notices to regulate the supervision and management of cases that are sent back for retrial, judgment revision, arraignment, and order retrial.
He introduced that in the past year, Anhui courts had a 98.3% completion rate of trial enforcement cases, ranking second among courts in the country; Anhui Higher Court's closure rate was 97.4%, ranking second among the country's high courts.
The average trial time of cases decreased by 10.7 days compared with the same period last year, and the case closure rate reached 100% within the trial period. The balanced case closure approach was selected as a judicial reform case of the Supreme People's Court.
——Efforts to deepen the special rectification of outstanding problems
Dong Kaijun said that in response to outstanding issues that may affect fair justice such as external and internal personnel intervention in cases, special rectifications have been carried out in the province's courts to prevent interference in the judicial "three regulations", and the avoidance of judges' appointments, and 109 court officers in the province made a supplementary report. 143 pieces of information, adjustment of 47 judge positions.
They also analyzed the problems in the implementation of the "three regulations" and sorted out 8 reasons, formulated 10 countermeasures in a targeted manner, and timely docked with the Supreme People's Court's new record and report platform of the "three regulations".
——Efforts to tighten the system cage
Dong Kaijun said that in conjunction with the provincial party committee’s inspection and rectification, we will carry out in-depth investigations of the risks of clean government, and on this basis, we will earnestly grasp the establishment of rules and regulations, and establish and improve judicial inspections, rotations and exchanges, and lifelong accountability for case quality. Timely plug regulatory loopholes, eliminate regulatory blind spots, and rely on the system to manage power, cases, personnel, and affairs.
At the same time, strengthen the daily supervision and special inspection of the implementation of the system, make the system a live high-voltage line, and effectively reduce the power rent-seeking space.
"Strengthening judicial restriction and supervision is an important guarantee for the standardized operation of judicial power." Dong Kaijun said that he will continue to deepen the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, the courts, and the strict management, and actively construct and improve the judicial power constraints that are compatible with the judicial accountability system. The supervisory system has effectively built the "system iron cage" and "data iron cage" that regulate the operation of adjudicative powers, so as to better maintain judicial fairness and integrity.
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