Judicial Interpretation and the Socialist Core Values

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Jacelyn Johnson

The Supreme People's Court (SPC) released a five-year plan to incorporate the country's socialist corevalues in handling judicial interpretation. Susan Finder, who has been observing the SPC for thelast 25 years and who was recently appointed as one of the 32 members of the international expertcommittee of the China International Commercial Court (CICC), shares with China Law & Practicethe SPC's approach as to how these socialist values will be incorporated into judicial interpretations.Her remarks are her own and should not be attributed either to the SPC or the CICC

 

Earlier this year, the Communist Party authorities issued a five-to-10 year plan to fully incorporate the country's socialist core values into its system of laws. The plan, which has not been released in full, apparently included the phrase “judicial interpretations should be amended and improved in a timely manner according to the demands of socialist core values.” That meant that the SPC needed to incorporate socialist core values into its judicial interpretations. Last month, the SPC issued a plan to do so interpretations over the next five years. The SPC plan implements the Communist Party document.

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