Front-end prevention is an important part of litigation source management. Recently, the People's Court of Zizhou County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, focused on the "three ends, four lines of defense, and five mechanisms" litigation source governance model proposed by the Political and Legal Committee of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Intermediate People's Court, based on the weaknesses of social management and the prone points of contradictions and disputes, and went deep into schools, communities, and enterprises in the jurisdiction to provide different focus on legal popularization services for the legal needs of different groups, strengthen the public's concept of the rule of law, enhance the public's awareness of the rule of law, promote the construction of peace, and comprehensively promote the deepening and practical management of litigation sources.
Take the "first lesson of school"
Every judge of the Zizhou Court is the vice principal of the rule of law of a school, and spring is the beginning of the year, and the people's tribunals and business divisions of the Zizhou Court generally carry out the "first lesson of the school year" work, focusing on the prevention of campus bullying, telecommunication fraud, and the harm of helping credit, so that children can feel the power of the rule of law, know how to protect themselves, and defend others.
The Zizhou People's Court organized legal education activities on campus
The court also invited the children to the court, in the form of "mock court + on-site popularization of the law", let the children be a little judge, so that the seeds of the rule of law can be planted in the hearts of the students; go into the children's classrooms, especially the left-behind children's schools, listen to the children's worries, let the children feel the warmth of the judges, and guide the students to learn to solve problems with the rule of law thinking, so as to "have awe in their hearts and stop in their actions".
Do a good job of "rule of law return visit service"
Zizhou County is an agricultural county, and most of the cases accepted by the courts focus on traditional disputes such as marriage, neighborhood, land use, and small loans. How to do a good job in the management of litigation sources in rural areas is a difficult problem for the courts. In 2023, the Zizhou Court created the "Litigation Source Analysis Briefing" and "Litigation Analysis Circular", which analyzed and studied the place where the dispute occurred and the type of case, and put forward opinions on the management of the source of litigation. The Political and Legal Committee of the Zizhou County Party Committee and the court also jointly selected 31 non-litigation villages and commended them, promoting the formation of a grassroots governance model of "small matters do not leave the village, and contradictions do not turn in", so that more civil contradictions can be resolved by the masses themselves.
The Zizhou People's Court organized and carried out rule of law return visits
But what happened to the cases that had been adjudicated and the disputes that had been mediated? Has the knot in the hearts of the masses been opened? Can more contradictions be prevented? The people's tribunals of the Zizhou People's Court have recently gone into some village groups, and have used their leisure time to carry out return visits to the rule of law in a homely manner, to provide the masses with the court's "after-sales service," to pay a return visit to the parties involved in some cases, and to target the marriage and family, child support, inheritance relations, and pension fund-raising fraud, which are of general concern to the masses. On issues such as neighboring relationship disputes and property disputes, the cadres and police officers patiently and meticulously answered the specific questions raised by the masses, and guided the masses on how to rationally and legally express their interests after disputes, so that the law can go to the masses and enter the hearts of the masses.
Walk into the enterprise to "check the pulse"
Most of the enterprises in Zizhou are concentrated in the agricultural and sideline products processing industry and labor-intensive handmade enterprises. These enterprises are generally village collective economies, or rural prosperity leaders, the corporate governance structure is not perfect, the ability to resist risks by market fluctuations is poor, and the protection of employees' rights and interests also needs attention. With the goal of legalizing the business environment, the Zizhou court focuses on the two themes of how to prevent risks and how to protect the interests of employees, on the one hand, makes friends with entrepreneurs, provides legal opinions to judges on issues such as contract signing and performance, equity dividends, etc., and on the other hand, understands the protection of rights and interests such as employees' work intensity, contract labor performance and social security payment, and protects the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers. Through discussions, we can understand the crux of the law-related issues of enterprise development and build a one-stop communication service platform for enterprises.
Zizhou Court walked into the enterprise to "check the pulse"
The governance of litigation sources in the new era also requires the people's courts to carry forward the concept of active justice to go out of the courts and into the masses, take the initiative in strengthening prevention at the source, optimizing diversified dispute resolution, and empowering grassroots governance, so as to solve the problems of "urgency, difficulty, and longing" of the masses with heart, affection, and force. (Source: The Age of the Rule of Law)
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