Shanghai found the first national maritime court practice base

The opening ceremony of Smart Maritime Court (Shanghai) Practice Base, China's first court practice base, was held on June 28.

Shen Deyong, Party deputy secretary and executive vice president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), attended and addressed the opening ceremony.

Shen stressed that we should keep up with the times and embrace the trends in modern science and technology, promote the innovation of maritime judicial system and the breadth and depth of maritime judicial practice in serving economic and social development.

The practice base, he said, is the first of its kind in China that has been approved by the SPC. By means of the Internet, business networks, local area networks, and maritime professional networks, the base will extensively collect data relating to the maritime trials, including those of ships, cargoes, marine environment, weather conditions and crew information, finding the in-depth potential value of massive data and applying them to maritime judicial practice.

During his speech, Shen stressed three points for the construction of the practice base, including:

First, the establishment of the practice base should be committed to leading the maritime judiciary's direction of development. We should focus on collecting the information as regards to the national maritime cases and referee documents, gathering and analyzing the judicial data, thus contributing China's wisdom and strength to the improvement of the international law of the sea. We should strengthen data sharing on the maritime information application system with relevant maritime departments; enhance the upgrading of maritime judicial services to meet the demands of both the Chinese and the foreign clients.

Second, the practice base should be established in line with the concept of prior planning and innovative development. We should formulate a development plan which both accords with the current needs and advances moderately; pursue inheritance, increment, and sustainable and integrated development; make full use of the resources from the sub-platform of China Maritime Trial System, China Foreign-related Commercial Maritime Trial network, platform of Maritime Trial network and other existing information construction results; comprehensively consider the common needs of national maritime court in trial and execution, litigation services and judicial management; adhere to unified leadership, unified planning, unified standards, and strive to promote new development model of the "Internet + maritime trial".

Third, the practice base construction should be committed to creating a "model" for the smart maritime court. We should dare to be the pioneer in establishing the court, and have courage to innovate and practice, and strive to create a practical adapting method to the maritime judicial work. The top priority should be given to a new database system that can be extended to national maritime courts. Strict rules on open access and approval procedures should be made to ensure simultaneous development and application of the practice base construction and information security system. A new mechanism should be developed while focusing on the formation of institutionalized and specialized trial models, thus achieving modernization of the maritime trial system and trial capacity.

Chen Yin, secretary of the Politics and Law Committee of the CPC Shanghai Committee, addressed the ceremony. Liu Guixiang, full-time member of the SPC Judicial Committee, announced the decision of the establishment of "Smart Maritime Court (Shanghai) Practice Base". Cui Yadong, president of Shanghai High People's Court, presided over the launching ceremony. Leading officials of relevant departments of the SPC and police representatives of Shanghai municipal political and legal departments attended the event.

Source : enccmt.court.gov.cn