In order to further promote the regulation of people’s court’s national judicial aid work and refine the operation norms, the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) released  the Provisions on People's Courts' Procedures for Handling National Judicial Aid Cases (for Trial Implementation), the Template of the National Judicial Aid Document of People's Courts (for Trial Implementation) and the Working Rules of the Judicial Aid Commission of the Supreme People's Court (for Trial Implementation) on February 26th 2019.

 It was understood that the Provisions on People's Courts' Procedures for Handling National Judicial Aid Cases (for Trial Implementation) include 27 articles in total which specifies the case filing and jurisdiction rules for judicial aid cases based on the original case regarding the special circumstances where the original case may have undergone different trial levels and may be in different chains such as trial and enforcement.  Moreover, given the current reality of “inversion” phenomenon between the judicial aid funds and the trial level of the court, the Provisions reaffirmed the joint relief principle and specified the rules for case filing and jurisdiction.

In addition, the Provisions further regulated the two ways to seek judicial aid, in which people's courts will notify, within their authority, the parties concerned of their rights to claim judicial aid or the parties concerned may claim judicial aid on their own and clarified, refined the entire process of case handling, including acceptance and handling of cases, decision making, application and distribution of the aid funds, and specified timeframe for each stage.

(Source: www.xinhuanet.com)