Professor Qin Tianbao participated in the “expert reasoning conference on law amendment proposal of the prosecution agency to raise public interest litigation”

March 17, 2017, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held an “expert reasoning conference on law amendment proposal of the prosecution agency to raise public interest lawsuit” Director of RIEL, Professor Qin Tianbao was invited to participate in this conference and proposed amendments proposal.

The conference was officiated by the Deputy Director-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Civil Administration Procuratorial Department Jia Xiaogang, Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Jiang Jianchu attended. At the meeting, the Procurator-General of Civil Administration Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Zheng Xinjian first introduced the pilot work summary of procuratorial organs to raise the public interest litigation and the drafting of the law amendment. Subsequently, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Hubei, Guangdong, Guizhou, Shanxi and Gansu, directors of the attorney general of the seven pilot provinces introduced the effectiveness of the pilot work experience. Then, the experts argued about the proposed amendments of Supreme People's Procuratorate, and discussed with the directors of the attorney general and people in charge of civil and administrative departments of pilot provinces.

Professor Qin Tianbao pointed out at the meeting that the procuratorial organs to bring public interest litigation reform, is an task of judicial reform of the central deployment to solve the real needs, which is of great significance. Through launching pilots work in certain scope, to accumulate experience and lay the foundation is a reasonable and pragmatic approach. Before the full establishment of the system, we should dare to face the major theoretical problems and practical problems exposed in the pilot, to conduct a comprehensive combing, in-depth study, in order to give the answer, to form a consensus. After all, this reform involves the reorganization of the power of multiple subjects and the reallocation of various interests. It should be prudent to argue and rationally make decisions and establish institutional arrangements with reasonable positioning, functional accuracy, procedural science, complete mechanism and coordination. At the same time, he also proposed specific amendments to the basic concepts of the proposed amendments, the identity status of the procuratorial organs, the litigation rights and procedures, the scope of the case, the jurisdiction of the case, the procedure of pre-litigation, the preservation of litigation, etc.

Prof. Qin Qianhong from Wuhan University Law School, Prof. Jiang Mingan from Peking University, Prof. Tang Weijian from the Renmin University of China, Prof. Zhou Hanhua from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other dozens of domestic experts and scholars, as well as the responsible comrades from The Administrative Committee of the National People's Congress, the legal system construction office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme People's Court Environmental Resources Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Office of Law and Policy, the Office of the Leading Group for the Reform of the Judicial System, and the 13 pilot provinces.