"Fengqiao" is erected in the countryside alley - Xiayi County Court's "Fengqiao-style People's Court" created a sidenote

　　This is a governance experience that originated at the grassroots level, and it solves a matter that has a bearing on the practical interests of the masses.

　　Every small thing about people's livelihood is connected to the people's life and social development.

　　How to do these little things well and make judicial services reach the hearts of the masses is a problem that the Xiayi County Court has been exploring for a long time. Stepping off the judgment platform, going into the fields, and walking to the masses were the solutions that the court found after repeated explorations.

　　5 courts, 5 "channels" for resolving disputes.

　　Under the guidance of the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, the courts of Xiayi County Court continue to innovate and decode new ideas and new ways to resolve conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level.

　　"Judge's Station", "Characteristic Court", "Circuit Trial + Law Popularization Publicity", "Judge + Dispute Resolution Platform", ...... A people's court has created a distinctive brand, and the judge has worked hard to shorten the service distance to the "last meter", and set up the "Fengqiao" in the rural alleys and on the hearts of the people.

　　In 2023, the Xiayi County Court will have 5,281 pre-litigation diversion disputes, 2,152 pre-litigation mediations, with a mediation success rate of 40.7%, a mediation rate of 33.92% for civil cases, and an automatic performance rate of 68.57% for effective civil judgments, all of which rank among the top courts in the city.

　　The numbers may be boring, but the strong warmth of people's livelihood released behind these numbers is indeed a little moving.

　　A

　　"Small Court" Unleashes "Big Energy" of Social Governance

　　The sun poured into the quiet village, and the roving trial car from the Wangji Court of the Xiayi County Court once again drove to the doorstep of the masses.

　　At the circuit handling point of the Wangji Court located in Sanlizhuang Village, Liudianji Township, a case of adjacent relationship disputes was officially opened.

　　"It's easy to make a judgment, but there are still hidden dangers. They are all neighbors, and it is best to be able to mediate and close the case. After the trial, the presiding judge Jiang Haoshen did not leave, he was still trying to find a mutually acceptable solution between the plaintiff and the defendant.

　　Jiang Haoshen found Li Xixi, the director of the village committee, and came to the place where the house was built, and mediated again on the basis of the trial. After nearly an hour of explaining the law, the party Li finally realized his mistake, and the village cadres struck while the iron was hot, prompting the two parties to reach a mediation agreement.

　　After the mediation, Jiang Haoshen explained the case and explained doubts after the verdict to the defendants, village cadres, and the masses, and preached legal knowledge.

　　What role should the grassroots court of the Xiayi County Court play?

　　Liu Dehui, president of the Xiayi County Court, said: "Grassroots courts should strive to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case, and should take the initiative to integrate court work into grassroots social governance." Basic-level courts should firmly carry the goal of creating a 'Fengqiao-style people's courtroom' on their shoulders, and give full play to the great energy of social governance. ”

　　Under the overall guidance of the party group of the county court, the grassroots courts have adopted the "three-step work method" to nip contradictions and disputes in the bud to the greatest extent.

　　What is the "three-step work method"? Liu Dehui gave an explanation: Take one step ahead to prevent risks, change "end-of-line management" to "front-end prevention"; resolve disputes in one step-by-step step, change "litigation-oriented" to "litigation after judgment"; and go one step deeper to build public trust, and change "closing the case" to "closing the case."

　　The "three-step work method" is interlocking, showing a different "maple" scene of the "Fengqiao experience" in the new era.

　　B

　　"Station" service directly to the "nerve endings"

　　"Judicial Tribunal Affairs Workstation", "Judge's Studio" and "Itinerant Case Handling Point" all have such "post station" signs in all townships and administrative villages in Xiayi County.

　　"Judges often come to the village to work. This is the intuitive impression of the people in Xiayi, and it is also the way for the people's court to extend its work functions.

　　"'Station', 'room' and 'point' pay attention to practical results, which can make the organization really play a role and make the service truly effective. Zhao Yan, a member of the party group of the Xiayi County Court, said.

　　"I thought that this matter would have to be time-consuming and laborious to fight a lawsuit, but I didn't expect it to be resolved so quickly at the doorstep, and it was a 'zero cost' dispute resolution, and we didn't spend a penny!" said a party with relief after the dispute was resolved.

　　This case of removing obstruction was received by Judge Jin Jingli of the Jiyang Court while he was on duty at the "post station." After accepting the case, Jin Jingli, together with the local judicial office and village cadres, adopted the multi-party linkage method of "court + village committee" to mediate the farmland adjacent dispute case of crop yield reduction caused by trees in the field. After "consultation" on the root cause, explanation of the law and reasoning, and education and guidance, the judge came up with a mediation plan on the spot that was satisfactory to both parties.

　　In addition to on-site mediation cases, the people's courtrooms also use "post stations" to select disputes of typical significance in rural areas, such as alimony, child support, marriage contract bride price, and neighboring rights disputes, and hold on-site court hearings to explain the law with cases, so as to achieve the superimposed effect of "closing a case, resolving similar cases, and educating one".

　　At present, Xiayi County has set up a total of 25 township court affairs workstations, 618 village (community) judges' studios, and 15 roving case-handling points. The "post station" has established and improved a system for judges to sit on shifts and visit and discuss their posts. The court appoints judges and judges' assistants to take turns to be on duty at the "post station", and takes the initiative to undertake functions such as online case filing, online litigation, interpretation of the law and answering questions, and public opinion communication.

　　These personalized "post stations" that meet the needs of different groups are scattered on the land of Licheng like a sky full of stars, like a "frontier outpost" planted in grassroots governance, so that judges can really "sit" on the bench of the masses, "think" to the hearts of the masses, and "do" to the doorstep of the masses, opening up the "nerve endings" of judicial services, so that the masses can enjoy high-quality judicial services at their doorsteps.

　　C

　　Stop litigation and settle disputes to achieve a non-litigation situation

　　Focusing on the goal of "contradictions do not leave the village", the court officers and policemen crossed the sea to show their magical powers, their feet were touched in the mud and down-to-earth, and they went deep into the village to do practical things, extending the "service tentacles" to the forefront, the farthest end, and the very end. In addition to completing the "prescribed actions" with high quality and efficiency, each court also combined the folk characteristics and economic characteristics of its respective jurisdictions to launch a variety of "optional actions".

　　The Wangji Court has formed two linkage mediation mechanisms: "1+3+X" of "people's courtroom + comprehensive management center, police station, judicial office + village committee" and "1+N" of "people's courtroom + institutions in relevant fields", and the multiple dispute resolution work runs through the whole process of mediation, trial and enforcement.

　　The Huiting Court established the "Lighter Characteristic Industry Court", and linked the Xiayi County Lighter Industry Chamber of Commerce to establish a "Court + Chamber of Commerce" mediation studio. In the process of hearing cases and enforcement, judges play the role of the chamber of commerce in the "bonding" between enterprises, and many enforcement cases involving enterprises are settled and settled by themselves under the mediation of the chamber of commerce.

　　The Jiyang Court actively explores the "court +" mediation model, takes multiple measures to promote traceability governance, and promotes diversified resolution of conflicts and disputes.

　　The Liji Court has established a liaison and docking mechanism of "one enterprise and one judge", and through "one-to-one" problem solving, "point-to-point" precise service, and "face-to-face" communication, it helps enterprises carry out "legal examinations" and enhances the awareness of legal risk prevention of enterprise leaders.

　　The Kongzhuang Court adheres to the contradiction investigation work mechanism, and moves the rule of law force from the resolution end to the prevention end through methods such as visiting the countryside and holding "court public open days", so as to realize the transformation of judicial services from "treating the disease" to "preventing the disease".

　　On the basis of innovating the characteristics of their own work, each court has also established a normalized litigation and mediation relationship with characteristic social organizations such as "Mediation by Rural Sages", "Mediation by the Five Elders" and "Peacemaker Mediation", inviting social organizations to participate in the resolution of conflicts and disputes from time to time, continuing to improve diversified dispute resolution mechanisms, promoting comprehensive management of conflicts and disputes and governance at the source, improving the level of rule of law in community and rural governance, and promoting the transformation of communities and villages to "less litigation and fewer visits" and "no litigation and no visits".

　　The original intention calls me to go, and the future can be expected.

　　The "Fengqiao experience" is the experience of the masses and the mass line. The courts of the Xiayi County Court insist on standing firmly on the people's position, measuring the land with footsteps, resolving people's worries with actions, solving the worries and worries of the masses in the way of the rule of law, mediating contradictions and disputes in the grid, eliminating them in the bud, resolving them at the grassroots level, and elevating the beautiful "Fengqiao" in people's hearts between the rural alleys, depicting a beautiful "Feng" scene in which the grassroots judiciary is actively integrated into the grassroots governance system.

Source: Henan Legal Daily reporter He Yonggang