Supreme People's Court

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Bei Jing Rui An Bin Guan, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China

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N39° 54' 10.7" E116° 24' 18.9"   (39.902972222222, 116.40525) Start navigation »

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The Supreme People's Court (Chinese: 最高人民法院; pinyin: Zuìgāo Rénmín Fǎyuàn) is the highest level of court in the mainland area of the People's Republic of China. Hong Kong and Macau, as special administrative regions, have their own separate judicial systems based on British common law traditions and Portuguese civil-law traditions respectively, and are out of the jurisdiction of the Supreme People's Court.
The Supreme People's Court is regarded as the superior appellate forum in China which supervises and governs the procedure of justice by all the special people courts and the local, subordinate courts. It is also the court of last resort in the whole of China.
The court is made up of 340 judges which meet in smaller tribunals to decide cases.
Since March 2013, the President of the Supreme People's Court and Grand Chief Justice has been Zhou Qiang.
The court system consists of a four level, two-hearing system trial process.

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