New Perspectives on Judicial Capacity Building

Author: Lü Botao
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed the major proposition of "strengthening the Party's governance capacity," marking an important milestone in the Party's history of development. Strengthening the Party's governance capacity is a fundamental task for the Party after taking power in the new historical period, encompassing all judicial activities led by the Party. Therefore, judicial capacity is a concentrated reflection of the Party's governance capacity in the judicial field; the construction of judicial capacity is an inevitable requirement for the Party's governance capacity building and the direction and goal of the efforts of the People's Courts. This book collects 65 outstanding papers from the three levels of courts in Guangdong Province in 2005. These papers cover various disciplines of law and various fields of adjudication, including judicial system reform, judicial decision-making, management and adjudicative capacity, the application of law, the ability to control court proceedings, and the ability to reason out judgments. They comprehensively reflect the practical experience and research achievements of courts at all levels in Guangdong Province in the construction of judicial capacity and the reform of the judicial system in recent years. These papers have strong guidance and profound practical significance and will undoubtedly influence and promote the process of judicial capacity building at all levels of courts in Guangdong Province, as well as provide theoretical support or reference for the ongoing judicial system reform.