Railway Court

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In the People's Republic of China there were several railway courts until 2012 ( Chinese  铁路 运输 法院 , English Railway Courts ). These special courts were subordinate to the Ministry of Railways and handled legal proceedings related to rail traffic in China .

history

The Railway Courts, along with other special courts, were created by the leadership of the People's Republic of China on September 28, 1954. Only three years later it was dissolved.

In the 1980s, the railway courts were reintroduced with a three-tier court structure. In addition to the highest railway court in Beijing, there were also 17 middle courts and 58 lower courts. However, the highest railway court was closed in 1987.

In the course of the dissolution of the Chinese Ministry of Railways, the railway courts were closed on June 28, 2012. The proceedings that previously fell within the jurisdiction of the railway courts will now be heard by the regional courts in the provinces.

Jurisdiction

The railway courts primarily dealt with criminal offenses. This included, for example, those that were walked on at stations and railway lines as well as in trains or that were directed against railway systems . Railway employees who committed offenses were also convicted by the Railway Report.

Furthermore, general litigation fell within the jurisdiction of the railway courts. For example, compensation payments for passengers who have had an accident or environmental damage caused by rail traffic have been negotiated by the railroad courts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dale June: Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems . CRC Press, 2013, p. 230.
  2. ↑ Jingwen Zhu: The state infrastructure guarantee for the federal railways in Germany run as a commercial enterprise - at the same time a comparative legal comparison to the law of the railways in the People's Republic of China . Herbert Utz Verlag, 2007, pp. 161–162, online edition
  3. ↑ China is fighting with millions of criminals . Die Welt, March 10, 2013.
  4. ^ China: Railway Courts Integrated into National Court System . loc.gov, September 12, 2012.