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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Supreme People’s Court (Zuìgao Rénmín Fayuàn)

China [cn]

Ruiping Ye

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
June 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Preliminary procedures of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Powers and jurisdiction of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Comparative constitutional law

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The Supreme People’s Court (‘SPC’) of China is the highest judicial body and the final appellate court of the People’s Republic of China (‘PRC’) (except for the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau; they each have a court of final appeal under the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ model) (appellate courts). 2 The PRC is a self-proclaimed socialist state and is ruled by a single party, the Communist Party of China (‘Party’ or ‘CPC’) (socialism). Its legal system mirrored that of the former Soviet Union in its inception and incorporates elements of the...
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