Brief introduction

Chenzhou Municipal Judicature Bureau is a function of the municipal government, undertaking the city's judicature administration work; law popularization, governing-by-law, jails management, mediating, educating and relocating the released, attorney notarization administration, legal help, national judicature test, administration of social legal service and other important functions. At present, the municipal judicature administration has 343 staff, 55 of which are working in municipal bureau. It consists of 8 administrative function offices: Office, Policies and Regulations Branch, Law Propaganda Branch (Municipal Governing-by-law Office), attorney Notarization Administration, Basic Unit Branch, Jail Administration of Reeducation through Labor Work, Finance Equipment Plan Branch,Political Office (Monitoring and Inspection Office), and 3 subordinates institutions: Municipal Public Notarization Office, Municipal Legal help Center, Municipal Environment Optimization of Economy Development of Attorney Aid Center, 259 basic judicature unit, 279 judicial assistants; 3,661 of various mediate organization, 41,000 mediators; 48 basic law service station, 237 basic unit lawyers, 21 law offices, 247 registered lawyers; 12 public notarization stations, 28 registered greffiers; 12 legal help organizations with 38 staff; 2 direct jails (Guiyang jail, municipal reeducation jail), 265 police officers. Address: Chenzhou People East Road, NO31. Office telephone number: 2223976 .Zip codes: 423000.

Functions and Responsibilities

The major functions and responsibilities of Municipal Judicature Bureau are:

1st, carry out the national relevant judicature work policies, laws and regulations; establish medium and long-term plan and the annual plan for the city's judicature administration development; surveil and implement the plans.

2nd, lead and administer punishment on city level; transform the criminal and the education-through-labor work; administer the Guiyang Jail and the Municipal Education-through-labor Administration Center.

3ed, draft the city's propaganda of laws and governing-by-law plans; implement and instruct each place of various professions' governing-by-law work.

4th, instruct lawyer inspection, legal advisory and the legal help work; manage social law service organizations; take charge of the legal service station's establishment, change, cancelling work.

5th, instruct and inspect general notarization service; administer notarization organizations.

6th, surveil and instruct the people's mediating work ,the judicial assistants and the basic unit judicature; the special telephone law service"12348" and the basic unit law service work; participate in comprehensive administration of public security.

7th, handle jointly with the related departments the release prisoner allocation affairs.

8th, instruct municipal associations, basic law service associations, academic society of law and greffier association work.

9th, assist Provincial Judicature Department to manage arbitration registration work; instruct and administer law service for society.

10th, instruct and administer the training of officers of city's judicature administration system and the legal science education work.

11th, organize and carry out the national judicature test work.

12th, instruct the construction of administrative judicature personnel and the political and moral construction; instruct and administer the police service and the police title appraisal work of administrative judicature system; help administer the cadres of judicial bureau in counties (cities, districts).

13th, instruct and administer finance plans, guns and ammunitions, clothing, vehicles and other equipments of the judicature system.

14th, undertake the routine work assigned by Chenzhou City-Governing By-law Office.

15th, undertake other tasks assigned by municipal party committee and the municipal government.