Following reform and opening up, China witnessed a rapid increase in legal cases, but the rate of increase has undergone a marked decline since 1997. The reasons this has occurred in a period of social transformation ...Following reform and opening up, China witnessed a rapid increase in legal cases, but the rate of increase has undergone a marked decline since 1997. The reasons this has occurred in a period of social transformation are threefold： a non-litigious dispute-settling mechanism, judicial policy and the credibility of the courts. A data analysis of the average annual rate of growth, the correlation coefficient and the respective proportions of solutions under the litigious and the non-litigious dispute-settling mechanisms indicates that the slowing of the rate of growth of litigation has been accompanied by a decrease in the role of the people＇s mediation system and the economic arbitration system. However, it is the strengthening of administrative dispute-settling mechanisms, a judicial policy of not accepting cases, the reform of litigation fees and a series of institutional cbnstructs aimed at judicial corruption that has curbed the rapid increase of legal cases.展开更多
文摘Following reform and opening up, China witnessed a rapid increase in legal cases, but the rate of increase has undergone a marked decline since 1997. The reasons this has occurred in a period of social transformation are threefold： a non-litigious dispute-settling mechanism, judicial policy and the credibility of the courts. A data analysis of the average annual rate of growth, the correlation coefficient and the respective proportions of solutions under the litigious and the non-litigious dispute-settling mechanisms indicates that the slowing of the rate of growth of litigation has been accompanied by a decrease in the role of the people＇s mediation system and the economic arbitration system. However, it is the strengthening of administrative dispute-settling mechanisms, a judicial policy of not accepting cases, the reform of litigation fees and a series of institutional cbnstructs aimed at judicial corruption that has curbed the rapid increase of legal cases.
