SPC and Small Internet Celebrities Interact Over the Air: Guarding "Young You" in the Name of law

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Recently, the interaction between the Supreme People's Court and a small Internet celebrity has aroused public concern.

According to media reports, on March 2, the Juvenile Court Work Office of the Supreme People's Court was established, and juvenile court circuit trial sites were set up in 6 circuit courts. On the morning of March 3, @Song Xiaorui, a 12-year-old young musician with tens of millions of fans on a social platform, posted a video praising the establishment of the SPC Juvenile Court Office, while the official Microblog of the Supreme People's Court almost "responded in seconds", saying that "in the name of the law, guarding you as a teenager is the most beautiful medal on our shoulders."

If you want to set a "theme framework" for this interaction, it is obviously "the protection of the rights and interests of minors". The SPC has set up a juvenile court work office to promote the work of juvenile courts and enhance the protection of the rights and interests of minors; the young Internet celebrities praised it because this move has enhanced the protection of their own rights and interests.

Trial specialization is an important measure to strengthen judicial safeguards for minors, a special group, and adhering to the development direction of juvenile adjudication specialization is not only a requirement for implementing the newly revised Law on the Protection of Minors and the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, but also an important embodiment of fully performing the functions of the people's courts and adhering to the policy of special and priority protection of minors.

It is also for this reason that the establishment of the SPC Juvenile Court Office is not a simple addition to the internal judicial institutions, which sends a strong signal to strengthen the judicial protection of minors.

Although the SPC Juvenile Court Office was born on March 2, the SPC's "Opinions on Strengthening Juvenile Trial Work in the New Era" issued two months ago has drawn up a blueprint for "establishing a juvenile trial leadership work mechanism". The establishment of the Juvenile Court Office, which was included in the "top-level design" early on, was placed on deep hopes.

As a specially established organizational leadership department, juvenile court offices may comprehensively coordinate juvenile trial guidance, participate in juvenile case trial management, coordinate the development of juvenile case circuit trials, and unify pace, gather forces, and advance work. In this way, juvenile judicial trial work has a "main backbone".

Special matters are entrusted to special people to handle, combined with the hot issues reflected by society and the difficult problems reflected in practice, targeted research is strengthened, through the formulation of judicial interpretations, judicial policies or the release of guiding cases and typical cases... It is foreseeable that the Juvenile Court Office has given juvenile judicial trial work a "search light", which is conducive to removing the stumbling blocks encountered in the trial.

Not only that, by strengthening the theoretical research of juvenile justice and making full use of judicial big data, the Juvenile Court Office can also analyze and judge the characteristics, situations and laws of juvenile delinquency and crime against minors, thereby providing a useful reference for government decision-making and judicial policy formulation.

Speaking of which, from the establishment of the first collegial panel specifically for the trial of juvenile criminal cases by the Shanghai Changning District Court in 1984 to the establishment of juvenile courts throughout the country and becoming a "special hope project", juvenile courts have gone through more than 30 spring and autumn seasons, becoming the "standard" of the people's courts, and making important contributions to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of minors and preventing juvenile delinquency.

It is worth mentioning that this kind of care for minors by the judiciary has also been responded to. In this incident, small Internet celebrities sent a video to express their gratitude, and the SPC paid attention to and responded in a timely manner, which invisibly narrowed the distance between the judiciary and the children. "In the name of the law, guarding the young you, this is the most beautiful medal on our shoulders", this is the expression of the voice of the heart, but also a promise of a thousand words.

"The flowers of the motherland are inseparable from the sunshine and rain dew of the rule of law." From the recent revision of important laws such as the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, to the promulgation of the Opinions on Strengthening juvenile adjudication in the New Era, the establishment of the SPC Juvenile Court Office, the release of typical cases of juvenile judicial protection, and the establishment of 6 juvenile court circuit trial sites, all of them are "in the name of the law, care for you as a teenager.". The more these rule of law efforts, the better, after all, this is to add bricks to the walls of the protection of the rights and interests of minors.

□ Liu Yuting (Legal Scholar)

Editor: Chen Jing Intern: Qi Qianqian Proofreader: Zhao Lin