page_title: Supreme People's Court
hierarchical_section_title: Supreme People's Court
caption_attribution_description: The main entrance to the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China.
context_page_description: The Supreme People's Court, officially the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, is the highest level of court in the mainland area of the People's Republic of China. Except for cases investigated by the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the CPG in the HKSAR, Hong Kong and Macau, as special administrative regions, have their own separate judicial systems based on British common law traditions and Portuguese civil-law traditions respectively, and are out of the jurisdiction of the Supreme People's Court.
  The Supreme People's Court is regarded as the superior appellate forum in China which supervises and governs the procedure of justice by all the special people courts and the local, subordinate courts. It is also the court of last resort in the whole of China. Due to China's authoritarian nature, the Court has never ruled against the government; there is hence a lack of checks and balances as there is in liberal democracies.
  The court is made up of 340 judges who meet in smaller tribunals to decide cases.
  The court system consists of a four-level, two-hearing system trial process.
context_section_description: The Supreme People's Court (Chinese: 最高人民法院; pinyin: Zuìgāo Rénmín Fǎyuàn), officially the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, is the highest level of court in the mainland area of the People's Republic of China. Except for cases investigated by the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the CPG in the HKSAR, Hong Kong and Macau, as special administrative regions, have their own separate judicial systems based on British common law traditions and Portuguese civil-law traditions respectively, and are out of the jurisdiction of the Supreme People's Court.
  The Supreme People's Court is regarded as the superior appellate forum in China which supervises and governs the procedure of justice by all the special people courts and the local, subordinate courts. It is also the court of last resort in the whole of China. Due to China's authoritarian nature, the Court has never ruled against the government; there is hence a lack of checks and balances as there is in liberal democracies.
  The court is made up of 340 judges who meet in smaller tribunals to decide cases.
  The court system consists of a four-level, two-hearing system trial process.
caption: The main gate of the Supreme People's Court in Beijing.
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