China’s Maritime Justice Transparency Index Report (2016) Published Officially Shanghai Maritime Court Topped The List

China 's maritime judicial transparency ranking list in 2016

Today, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences published the "Blue Book of Law” in 2017 and issued the "Chinese Maritime Judicial Transparency Index Report". Shanghai Maritime Court ranked first with a total score of 77.2 among all maritime courts nationwide.

In 2016, the group of Legality Index Innovation Engineering Project, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law, carried out a fourth assessment on judicial publicity situation of all the 10 maritime courts in China.

“Blue Book of Law”claimed that, since launched on the line in March, 2016, Shanghai Maritime Court’s website in new version had been operated steadily, updated timely with full contents. All measures taken by Shanghai Maritime Court, such as making high-quality cases and trial records to public, creatinga Wechat official account etc., are worth using for reference.

The year of 2016 was the beginning of the construction for international maritime judicial center. And the key to this construction is to improve credibility and international influence of China’s maritime justice. “To promote justice by opening, to build credibility by justice” is the inevitable choice for China’s maritime justice .

In order to take a complete understanding and supervision of the maritime trial work for the public, Shanghai Maritime Court actively explored new ways of judicial publicity, and vigorously promoted the opening of trial process, judgment  documents and enforcement information. All these efforts, including improvement of judicial transparency, creation of a website-blog-wechat "three-dimensional" media platform, all-round display and opening of court work, fast and convenient judicial services, won high recognition in the society.