This newspaper, Beijing, February 20 (China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Han Yang) The reporter learned from the Supreme People's Procuratorate today that the "Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law (Proposed Draft)" has now been formed.
The "Legislative Plan of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress" announced in September 2023 will include the Procuratorate Public Interest Litigation Law as a first-class project. Xu Xiangchun, director of the Eighth Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that in 2024, public interest litigation procuratorial work will focus on promoting the implementation of the "Four Ones" work, that is, one piece of legislation, one opinion, one special project, and one series, to promote the high quality and efficiency of public interest litigation procuratorial work. develop.
First, improve the top-level design to provide stronger support for case handling practice. Cooperate with the legislative body to accelerate the promotion of special legislation for procuratorial public interest litigation, clarify through legal forms the key and difficult issues existing in practice such as irregular case filing and insufficient protection of investigation rights, and implement "handling every case with high quality and efficiency" into system construction middle. Further improve the existing public interest litigation system and mechanism, timely revise and improve the relevant provisions of the "People's Procuratorate Public Interest Litigation Handling Rules", formulate judicial interpretations in conjunction with the Supreme People's Court, and further promote and improve the judicial interpretation system of public interest litigation.
The second is to speed up the construction of mechanisms and provide more powerful guidance to improve the quality and efficiency of case handling. Integrate the new concepts and requirements of public interest litigation put forward by the new party group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate into the construction of the mechanism, firmly establish the concept of giving priority to quality and efficiency, and further optimize the case handling mechanism. Promote the formulation of opinions on strengthening public interest litigation and procuratorial work in the new era and new journey, and guide all localities to pursue the basic value pursuit of procuratorial duties and case handling in the new era and new journey of "handling every case with high quality and efficiency" throughout the public interest litigation and procuratorial handling of cases. Accelerate the improvement of the case handling evaluation system with the characteristics of public interest litigation prosecution, and guide all provincial procuratorates to scientifically carry out quality and efficiency evaluation of public interest litigation cases based on the actual case handling and characteristics of their respective jurisdictions.
The third is to carry out special supervision and "break down" the weak links in the work. Organize and carry out special activities to build the quality and efficiency of public interest litigation and prosecution cases in pursuit of the basic value of "handling every case with high quality and efficiency", and conduct special supervision for areas with outstanding case handling problems and areas that are lagging behind in administrative public interest litigation and prosecution work found during the survey. Promote relevant procuratorates to strengthen quality and efficiency.
The fourth is to conduct extensive and in-depth publicity to highlight the unique effectiveness of the public interest litigation system. Carry out a series of planned and organized in-depth publicity of high-quality and efficient cases, cultivate and select high-quality and efficient cases handled by provincial courts themselves, as well as high-quality and efficient cases handled by provincial courts under the guidance of municipal courts and grassroots courts. Representative and influential cases, using the Wanfeng Lake and Nansi Lake cases as templates to create benchmark cases. Use vivid legal cases to conduct social publicity and education, guide all walks of life to pay more attention to the development of public interest litigation, and form a consensus on public interest protection.
Source: China Youth Daily