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Shanghai Intermediate court launches mobile app

December 09, 2013 posted by Steve Brownstein

Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court has launched its mobile online litigation service application as part of its effort to make its court service more accessible and transparent to the public, the court announced Tuesday.

Some 26,000 people have used the consultant service since the court started a Web version of the service in 2009. More than 3,589 people contacted judges online and submitted or transferred 476 legal documents, the court said.

"Because more and more people are accessing the Internet through their mobile phones, we think it is time to launch the application so that people can get seamless access to the court service. This is part of the job to make the legal process more transparent," said Zhou Zanhua, vice president of Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court.

Like the Web version of the service, the smartphone application has functions targeted at the public and the parties involved in lawsuits, the court said.

For the public, the application provides guidance about litigation proceedings, the writing of legal documents and the court's jurisdiction areas.

For parties involved in a lawsuit, they can submit legal documents online, exchange evidence, contact the judge for an explanation of a verdict and examine past verdicts by searching by filing number or the litigant's name.

On the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, one of the court's presidents will get online to provide consulting services to the public.

"Except for intellectual property and criminal cases, in which we stick to legal terms for the sake of accuracy, judges will try their best to explain the civil cases to the public in plain language so people can understand the logic behind each verdict more clearly," Zhou said.

Zhou said court services and legal proceedings should become more open to the public and the media. The court will have at least 70 live online broadcasts of different cases every year.