China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) pointed out the need to expand channels for judicial openness and extend their coverage in a working conference on Feb 28.
The conference also confirmed that judicial openness will be applied to the whole process; that is, to all legal proceedings and various kinds of legal documents. And some other channel will also be expanded to help the people involved, the general public and litigants, make queries and retrievals by SMS, Wechat, website access and mobile applications.
It’s required to strengthen cooperation with academics and information technology companies and motivate courts at local levels to improve data analysis ability and serve judges handling cases.
There have already been four judicial openness platforms on judgment documents, trial procedures, executive information provision and court trials.
As of now, China Judgment Online has released more than 4.26 million judgment documents by courts at all levels and page views have exceeded more than 13.2 billion from more than 210 countries and regions.
And the website “Tingshen.court.gov.cn” for court trial openness has live streamed 640,000 trials attracting 4.8 billion viewers on main and ancillary sites, enabling people to observe judicial process from their homes.
