https://legal.excellentwiki.com/china/courts-and-judiciary/ Recent content in Courts and Judiciary on ExcellentWiki - Legal Encyclopedia Hugo en-US Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://legal.excellentwiki.com/china/courts-and-judiciary/chinese-court-system/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://legal.excellentwiki.com/china/courts-and-judiciary/chinese-court-system/ <h2 id="constitutional-framework-and-the-organic-law-of-the-peoples-courts">Constitutional Framework and the Organic Law of the People&rsquo;s Courts</h2> <p>The court system of the People&rsquo;s Republic of China is constituted under the Organic Law of the People&rsquo;s Courts, first adopted in 1979 and substantially revised in 2018. The Constitution of 1982 (as amended) provides in Article 128 that the people&rsquo;s courts are the judicial organs of the state and exercise judicial power independently, subject to the requirement that they are &ldquo;not subject to interference by administrative organs, social organizations, or individuals.&rdquo; The tension between this constitutional declaration of judicial independence and the constitutional principle of the Chinese Communist Party&rsquo;s leadership over all state work (Article 1 of the Constitution, amplified in the Party Constitution) is the central structural characteristic of the Chinese judiciary.</p>