The second administrative law judges’ conference of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) was held recently at the National Judges College.

SPC Vice-president Jiang Bixin pointed out that the conference, an important mechanism, serves to advance consistency in decisions of circuit courts and court departments which helps avoid different judicial trial results over same case.

Jiang emphasized that the mechanism also helps improve quality and efficiency of administrative adjudication, adding that it’s now necessary to build it into a sound and well-used platform.

Complicated problems in administrative case trials should be submitted to the conference for further discussion so that universal judicial rules can be extracted, summarized and published as a series of guiding cases, Jiang said.

Issue submission procedures should also be improved, Jiang added, indicating that the conference should be held in a timely manner to solve problems of common concern involving rights protection and major public interests.

He also said that inquisitors should make judgments and whoever judges a case should be responsible for it. Suggestions from the conference can be referenced in a case but cannot replace opinions from the collegiate bench or the presiding judge.