Hangzhou court online judicial appraisal completed the process of "middle obstruction" in 30 days.
For a long time, judicial expertise is time-consuming, laborious and costly, which has been criticized by both parties and judges.
In order to do judicial expertise, the parties often need to go back and forth to the court and supplement the materials many times. The information of the appraisal institution is opaque, and the appraisal results often cause doubts, which has become a major pain point affecting the judicial credibility. For judges, it takes a long time to wait for expert opinions, and the expert results are not accepted, which restricts the improvement of the quality and efficiency of handling cases. Some judges said frankly, "Can you try not to do it without making an appraisal?" The quality and effectiveness of judicial expertise has become a "middle obstacle" in the process of handling cases.
The reporter of "Legal Daily" learned today from the Intermediate People’s Court of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province that Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court actively explored the management of judicial expertise institutions and the reform of judicial expertise processes, which improved the efficiency of judicial expertise, optimized the quality of judicial expertise, and solved the double troubles of judges and parties.
Since July 20th this year, Hangzhou has promoted the online judicial expertise platform in 15 courts in the city. At present, there are 206 professional institutions registered on the online judicial authentication platform of Hangzhou court, 996 accounts entrusted by the judicial authentication are registered online, 2,141 cases of authentication and evaluation are submitted, and 1,260 cases are closed. The average time for closing the case has been shortened from more than two months offline to 30 days.
Yu Lili is a front-line post judge in Yuhang District People’s Court. The promotion of online platform has brought a lot of convenience to her work. She lamented: "In the past, when a judge wanted to make an appraisal, he had to hand over the appraisal materials to the department in charge of external entrustment, and then this department entrusted the appraisal institution. Because of insufficient constraints and insufficient motivation of the appraisal institution, it was hard to say when the appraisal result would come back. The case was limited by the trial limit, and the judge was dragged into such a hurry!"
It is understood that now, relying on the online judicial appraisal platform, the clerk will scan and upload the appraisal materials and submit them to the platform, and the appraisal can be initiated on the same day. Moreover, you can also set a time limit for the appraisal institutions to reply to the results. The appraisal of assets is 15 working days, the appraisal of forensic medicine, physical evidence and audio-visual materials is 30 working days, and the appraisal of project cost and quality is 60 working days, all of which are very clear. For example, in forensic medicine, the identification of disability grade, delayed construction period, nursing period and nutrition period can be completed in 15 working days, which greatly improves the identification efficiency.
The start of Hangzhou online forensic platform can be traced back to February 2017. In order to further solve the problems existing in judicial expertise and practice the reform goal of "running at most once", under the guidance of Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, Yuhang Court took the lead in using the mature "online data integration" processing platform in the field of road traffic disputes to carry out online judicial expertise; In October 2017, the Higher People’s Court of Zhejiang Province approved and determined Yuhang Court as the pilot court for online appraisal reform of civil cases in the province; On July 20 this year, this work was officially launched in Hangzhou. At present, the online appraisal platform has basically covered most types of judicial appraisal in Hangzhou courts through the trial and promotion of the first, second and third phases. Through the online platform, the data of the court, the appraisal institution and the parties can be shared, which is convenient for tracking the appraisal process in time.
Zhuang Gencai, vice president of Yuhang Court, told the reporter: "After each appraisal is completed, the judge can score the appraisal institution, which is similar to online shopping ‘ Praise ’ , which will directly affect the ‘ Take orders ’ Situation, so they all attach great importance to it. You can get feedback in time without running errands many times. The promotion of the online appraisal platform has greatly improved the quality and efficiency of appraisal and the satisfaction of the parties. "
Recently, Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court reported the assessment of the city’s judicial appraisal and evaluation institutions. Among them, 14 institutions were suspended for one year or six months according to relevant management regulations.
The results of this notification were sent to 15 grass-roots courts and judicial technical professional institutions in Hangzhou, and copied to various industry authorities or industry associations. Soon, Fang Yanyun, director of the Judicial Appraisal Division of Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, felt the "shock" caused by the notification results: "In the past, we urged the appraisal institutions to get the results quickly, but now their phone calls come to you. Concerned about the impact of the assessment results on the reputation of the organization, and even related to the continued survival of the organization; There is a commitment to rectify the work style, standardize the performance of duties and improve work efficiency. From passive to active, the attitude of professional institutions has changed significantly. "
It is not an easy task to assess the professional institutions of judicial technology. It takes several months from brewing to publishing the assessment results. The assessment takes the form of self-assessment, entrusted court assessment, summary spot check by the Intermediate People’s Court, holding a forum, listening to the opinions of business departments, visiting relevant competent departments or industry associations, etc., with the aim of evaluating the level of appraisal institutions as comprehensively and truly as possible.
According to reports, this assessment is mainly aimed at professional institutions such as real estate, land, asset evaluation, project cost, accounting audit, product quality and three types of appraisal that have entered the information platform of Zhejiang courts in recent years, focusing on the professional institutions’ practice ability, work efficiency, operational norms, service quality, text norms and charging standards. There is one of the assessment methods: "Those who refuse to accept the entrustment of the court without justifiable reasons, damage or lose the appraisal materials, fail to perform the obligation of appearing in court, and issue false appraisal opinions, which have seriously affected the trial execution, shall be removed from the list."
"The assessment method clarifies the exit situation, purifies the team of judicial authentication institutions, and allows truly qualified, efficient and promising institutions to undertake more entrustment, which is also an inevitable choice for survival of the fittest." Fang Yanyun said.
Ronaldo Lin, vice president of Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, said that the combination of daily assessment and regular assessment, online assessment and offline assessment of appraisal institutions requires professional institutions to raise awareness and be more proactive, and grass-roots courts should establish and improve the daily management ledger system.
"In the next step, Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court will strengthen communication with various industry authorities or industry associations, realize information exchange and information sharing, and jointly explore online appraisal institutions, appraisers’ access standards, elimination and exit mechanisms, and the accountability system for judicial appraisal errors, and jointly urge professional institutions to standardize their professional practices, improve the trial level of judicial appraisal services, and give full play to the positive role of judicial appraisal guarantee trial activities." Ronaldo Lin said.
Newspaper, Hangzhou, November 20th