On the afternoon of 15 April 2016, we held a report on quality assessment of cases heard and enforced in 2015 and a lecture on hearing and enforcement practices. Present were Li Ge, director of the Third Civil Division of the Higher People’s Court of the province, and Lin Dai, director of Coordination and Guidance Office of the Enforcement Bureau. They reported on the assessment results of maritime cases heard and enforced by us in 2015, and gave a lecture on major issues related.

As arranged and deployed by the Higher People’s Court of the province, an assessment team randomly inspected 118 litigation cases and 91 enforcement cases concluded by us in 2015 in maritime areas. Mr Li and Mr Lin fully recognized the quality of theses cases, while pointing out some common issues: as regards litigation cases, the filing was not in correct order and the tables of contents were over simplified. Results of collegial bench deliberation were not correctly summarized, legal provisions were not annexed to judgments, and hearing procedures were not in compliance with standards. As regards enforcement cases, no accessory files were maintained, and cases involving objection to enforcement were filed in bindings used for implemented enforcement cases. Judgments did not contain sufficient reasons, and rights of action were not covered in announcements.

Mr Li minutely reviewed some issues spotted in the assessment of civil cases, and lectured on hearing procedures and filing as well as key matters in these two aspects. Mr Lin analysed and explored practices in enforcement cases, such as terminating a current enforcement procedure, adding a third person as judgment debtor, and compiling lists of people who have defaulted on enforcement.