Criminal Procedure Law (Revised Edition) (with CD-ROM)

Author: Liu Mei, Wei Yuening, edited by Legal Examination Center
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Publish Date: 2007-01-18
Features: As a fundamental legal discipline, Criminal Procedure Law holds a very important position in the annual lawyer qualification examinations. After the three exams were combined, in the judicial examination, Criminal Procedure Law is even more crucial, with its score value increasing from 35-40 points in the lawyer exam to 60-70 points in the judicial exam. Therefore, along with Criminal Law, Civil Law, and Civil Procedure Law, Criminal Procedure Law is referred to by candidates as one of the "big laws" of the judicial exam. So, how can one excel in Criminal Procedure Law?
From the content of the Criminal Procedure Law questions in recent judicial exams, the knowledge points covered are largely the same. They mainly include:
- The basic meaning of the concept of procedural justice
- Exceptions to open trials
- Statutory circumstances where criminal liability is not pursued and their handling
- Parties to the lawsuit (legal representatives, defenders, witnesses, appraisers, complainants)
- Special jurisdiction
- Recusal system
- Evidence (types of evidence, classification of evidence, division of burden of proof, exclusion of illegal evidence, witness questioning)
- Coercive measures (conditions for converting from pretrial release to arrest, differences between criminal detention and other detentions)
- Investigation (interrogation, appraisal, withdrawal of cases, lawyers' involvement)
- Non-prosecution
- Simplified procedures
- Civil lawsuits in conjunction with criminal cases (legal basis for civil lawsuits in conjunction with criminal cases, acceptance of civil lawsuits in conjunction with criminal cases)
- Trials of private lawsuits (handling of cases where the plaintiff does not appear, counterclaims during the process of private lawsuits)
- First-instance procedures of public prosecution cases (trial organization, conditions for converting from simplified procedures to ordinary procedures, defendant's guilty plea, withdrawal of charges)
- Appeals (subjects, right of appeal, appeal period)
- Death penalty review procedures (review of suspended death sentences, changes)
- Trial supervision procedures (trial of retrial cases)
- Execution (executing agencies, application of conditional release outside prison)
- Foreign-related procedures (confirmation of foreign nationality, criminal judicial assistance)
From the difficulty of Criminal Procedure Law questions in recent judicial exams, the difficulty level has remained relatively stable.