Top court regulates case jurisdiction

The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently issued a guideline on strengthening and standardizing the work of jurisdiction escalation as well as retrial and arraignment in a bid to optimize the working mechanism, improve the check and supervision mechanism based on the four-level court system, and reinforce guidance on trial practices.
The guideline clarifies the specific situations, criteria, procedures, and supportive mechanism where a case is eligible to be transferred to a higher-level court for trial or enter a retrial, so that higher-level courts can fully tap their roles of unifying legal application, promoting litigation-source governance and preventing external interference by handling the transferred case.

News from: Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China