"I love working at the Hengshan People's Court, not only because this is my hometown, with the nostalgia and villagers I am familiar with, but also because it carries my youthful memories of struggle and the pursuit of the profession of judge." Zhao Mingchao, 50-year-old president of the Hengshan People's Court of Zhuhai Doumen Court, has been working in the people's court for 20 years. Recently, in the Guangdong Provincial High People's Court in the provincial court to carry out the "most beautiful people's courtroom and the most beautiful grass-roots judges" recommendation publicity activities, as the only candidate in Zhuhai, he was shortlisted for the guangdong "most beautiful grass-roots judges" selection.
Read the folks under the nourishment of nostalgia
With a straight body, a clean face and a warm smile, this is the first impression given by Zhao Mingchao, judge of the Hengshan People's Court of the Doumen District People's Court. Zhao Mingchao, who looks to be in his 30s, is actually over 50 years old and is a senior judge who has been in the court for 20 years.
In 1991, the 21-year-old Zhao Mingchao was assigned to the Shangheng Court as a clerk when he first entered the Doumen District Court, and has since formed an indissoluble relationship with the court. At first, some villagers had a weak sense of law, did not know much about the work of judges, and did not understand laws and regulations. Zhao Mingchao had been chased by the parties to the case and threatened with bad words, and when he encountered such a tricky situation, his wife, who was engaged in the work of the Women's Federation and had a lot of experience in mediation, gave him a support, telling him that in addition to sinking his heart to understand the local conditions and public opinion, he also had to compare his heart with everyone.
Zhao Mingchao said: "What the villagers need is not only a judge who handles cases according to law, but also a judge who understands them. Zhao Mingchao began to work hard with the villagers. He first started with "talking", giving full play to the advantages of his locals, and actively learning more and more authentic dialects of each village, so that he could quickly gain recognition and trust with the villagers as soon as he chatted. At the same time, he strives to interpret laws and regulations in a language that the masses can understand. Over the years, Zhao Mingchao's case withdrawal rate and the rate of serving judgments and interest lawsuits have been at the forefront of the whole court.
If you want to convince the villagers, you must improve your business capabilities. To this end, Zhao Mingchao has continuously studied the trial business and excavated the characteristics of the court's trial work. In his view, at the level of the people's court, the key to trying a case is how to clarify the factual disputes, explain the legal provisions, and obtain results that can be recognized by all parties in various possible ways. In view of this characteristic, he summed up the "trick to solve disputes" of "finding the focus and borrowing power". When he used this "trick" to accurately find the deep cause of the contradiction in a neighborhood dispute case that lasted for 20 years and successfully resolved the dispute, the party Lao Li said gratefully: "I respect Judge Zhao very much, and I can feel that he really wants to help me solve the problem."
Sincerely for the truth. On weekdays, the villagers will warmly invite Zhao Mingchao to his home for tea and talk about the problems they encountered. Village cadres also often discussed with him the work of popularizing the law in the village. This strong nostalgia nourishment made Zhao Mingchao deeply fall in love with the court, and always maintained the heart of the naked child who first entered the court at the age of 21, and rooted in the court.
Infect others with the power of a smile
Zhao Mingchao loves to laugh, and laughing is quite infectious. As the saying goes, smile, ten years less, this is probably Zhao Mingchao's second youth secret.
In 2017, Zhuhai was hit by typhoon "Tiange", and many villagers engaged in fishing and breeding in Doumen were seriously damaged, which also caused some disputes. Zhao Mingchao was most impressed by a property damage dispute case related to a fish pond. The fish ponds of the plaintiff Lao Wu and the defendant Lao Lu are adjacent to each other, and the neighbors usually take care of each other and get along well. Unexpectedly, Lao Lu was careless in cleaning the silt of his own fish pond once, resulting in silt flowing into Lao Wu's fish pond, causing a large number of deaths of Roche shrimp that Lao Wu had worked so hard to cultivate. Listening to Lao Wu talk about the loss of the fish pond, watching the relationship between the two families become so tense, Zhao Mingchao, who usually loves to laugh, was silent.
In order to resolve the dispute, Zhao Mingchao decided to hold a trial on the spot and organize mediation at the side of the fish pond after an on-site inspection. A square table, six benches, a seemingly simple trial, but without losing solemnity. Zhao Mingchao started from the existing consensus between the two sides, grasped the differences in the details, carried out mediation work in a targeted manner, and explained the truth that "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors" clearly and thoroughly explained. Kung Fu paid off, and in the end, Lao Wu and Lao Lu shook hands and made peace, and Zhao Mingchao had the smile of the past on his face again.
Whenever he resolved the neighborhood contradictions between the villagers for many years, he smiled comfortably; whenever he heard the villagers say" "If you have difficulties, go to court", he smiled with relief. "The power of a smile can bring me and my fellow countrymen closer together." Zhao Mingchao said that he hopes that he can always motivate himself and infect others with a positive attitude.
Serve the masses with the momentum of struggle
The state of youth is not in age, but in the momentum of struggle in the heart. After 20 years of working in the court, Zhao Mingchao has not tired of slacking off because of his long-term work in the court. As president of the court, he has always thought about how to extend the functions of the court and serve the public.
In his view, the court should not only resolve disputes, but also do a good job in the management of the source of litigation to prevent disputes from occurring. To this end, he took the initiative to attack, formulated a liaison plan for going into the village, led the cadres and policemen of the whole court to go deep into the village residence, learned from the village cadres about the possible contradictions and legal popularization needs in the village, and often returned to visit the villagers who had gone to the court to resolve disputes. "Judge Zhao's initiative to find things to do is like a young man in his twenties." The village cadres could not help but sigh. Through Zhao Mingchao's efforts, the number of cases received by the Hengshan People's Court has decreased year by year, and the transfer rate has reached 43%.
From Zhao Mingchao, the young comrades deeply felt that his original intention and love along the way had never changed, and this initial heart and love also continued to infect everyone. When transferred away from the Yokoyama People's Court, a young comrade said: "It was Super Brother who made me change from 'not calling' to 'not wanting to leave'. ”
As soon as the reporter finished his interview with Zhao Mingchao, he was already busy arranging to visit Shanglan Village, because the village will carry out a homestay tourism project in the near future, and he will take his court colleagues to give a special law popularization lesson to the cadres of the village committee. Judge Zhao, who "can't stay idle," also plans to build a long corridor for popularizing the law of the Civil Code to make the popularization of law in village residences more prominent.
Zhao Mingchao, who is so busy and busy, has no earth-shattering deeds or handled high-profile major cases, but his 20 years of silent cultivation in the court is itself an extraordinary.
Text/Reporter Yuan Pingfeng Intern Xie Ke'er Correspondent Ke Kangkang