Summary

Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China (1954)

The task of the people's courts is to try criminal and civil cases, and, by judicial process, to punish criminals and settle civil disputes in order to safeguard the people's democratic system, maintain public order, protect public property, safeguard the rights and lawful interests of citizens, and ensure the successful carrying out of socialist construction and socialist transformation in the country.
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Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China (1954)

If the president of a people's court finds, in a legally effective judgment or order of his court, some definite error in the determination of facts or application of law, he must submit the judgment or order to the judicial committee for disposal.
If the Supreme People's Court finds some definite error in a legally effective judgment or order of any lower people's court, or if an upper people's court finds such error in such a judgment or order of a lower people's court, they have the authority to review the cases themselves or to direct a lower court to conduct a retrial.
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