Basic People's Courts

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Basic People's Courts are the grassroots-level trial courts in China's judicial system, handling most first-instance civil, criminal, and administrative cases within their local jurisdictions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf judicial organ
people's court
trial court
appealTo Intermediate People's Courts
appliesLegalSystem socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics
country China
hasInternalBody adjudication committees
administrative divisions
civil divisions
criminal divisions
enforcement divisions
headedBy president of the Basic People's Court
judicialHierarchyLevel basic level
jurisdictionScope most first-instance administrative cases within their districts or counties
most first-instance civil cases within their districts or counties
most first-instance criminal cases within their districts or counties
jurisdictionType territorial jurisdiction
legalBasis administrative procedure law
surface form: Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China

Chinese civil procedure law
surface form: Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China

Constitution of the People's Republic of China
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China
locatedIn ethnic minority areas of China
rural areas of China
urban areas of China
mayInclude people's tribunals
mustEnsure independence in exercising adjudicative power according to law
open trials except where the law provides otherwise
rights of parties to litigation
organizationalLevel autonomous county-level court
banner-level court in Inner Mongolia
county-level court
district-level court
municipal district-level court
partOf people's courts of the People's Republic of China
surface form: people's courts system of the People's Republic of China

state judicial organs of the People's Republic of China
primaryFunction exercise judicial power on behalf of the state at the grassroots level
handle enforcement of effective judgments and rulings
hear first-instance administrative cases
hear first-instance civil cases
hear first-instance criminal cases
mediate civil disputes according to law
staffedBy judges
judicial clerks
people's assessors
subordinateTo Intermediate People's Courts
supervisedBy Intermediate People's Courts
people's procuratorates at the same level
usesLanguage standard Chinese in court proceedings

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Intermediate People's Courts lowerCourt Basic People's Courts
higher people’s courts of China supervise Basic People's Courts
subject surface form: Higher people’s courts of China
this entity surface form: basic people’s courts of China