Asian Judges Symposium on Environmental Adjudication,
Green Courts and Tribunals, and Environmental Justice
Manila, Philippines
July 28, 2010
中国的环境法庭及其作用
Environmental Tribunal and Its Roles in China
Speaker： Wang Canfa (王灿发)
Center For Legal Assistance To Pollution Victims
China University of Political Science and Law
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Canfa WANG
Professor: Institute on Environment & Resources of China Uiversity
of Political Science and Law (CUPL)
Director: Center for Legal Assistance to Polution Victims of CUPL
Standing Syndic: Chinese Society of Environmental Science
Attorney(Part time): Fada Law Firm in Beijing
Address: Center For Legal assistance to Pollution Victims
China University of Politics and Law
No. 25, Xitucheng Road, Haidian District
Beijing • China • 100088
Telephone: 86-10-6221-0149/0318
Hotline: 010-62267459
Email: wcanfa@clapv.org
office@clapv.org
Website：www.clapv.org
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§1.0 中国的法院体系
Current Judicial System in the PRC
The juridical system of China consists of the Supreme Court, the local Courts at all levels and specialized courts
such as the Military Court. The local Courts include the Higher Courts in all provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities directly under the Central Government, the Intermediate Courts in districts and municipalities as well
as the Court in counties, cities and municipal districts. The specialized courts mainly include the Military Court, the
Maritime Court, the Railway Transport Court as well as the Forestry Court, the Petroleum Court, the Land
Reclamation Court, the Youth Court and so on. The courts at all levels are responsible to people’s congress at the
same level as well as its standing committee while the practice of justice is under the supervision of the courts at a
higher level.
Supreme Court
Specialized Courts
Local Courts at all
levels
Military Court of the Central Military
Higher Court at the provincial,
district, and city levels
Forestry
Court
Railway
and
Transportation
Court
Court at the county,
city and district under
city levels.
Maritime
Court
intermediate Court at the
district and city levels
Commission
The Military Courts of all
military areas
The Military Courts of
different regiments
Dispatched tribunals of
Grass-root People’s Courts
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§2.0. Specialized Environment Justice Agency
According to the published data, more than 10
specialized environment justice agencies have been
established throughout China to cater to the work of
environmental protection, including Environmental
Protection Courts, Environmental Protection Trial
Division within the juridical system and the Circuit Court
of Environmental Protection, a joint establishment with
administrative agencies of environmental protection.
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§2.0. Specialized Environment Justice Agency
1. The Environmental Protection Tribunal of the People’s Court of
Dongling District of Shenyang, Liaoning Province (April, 2002);
2. The Circuit Court of the People’s Court of Shahekou District of
Shenyang, Liaoning Province (April, 2004);
3. The Environemntal Protection Court of Jizhou Municipality of
Shijiazhuang, Hebei (2004);
4. The Circuit Court of Environmental Protection of Shiping County
of Liaocheng, Shandong, province (2006);
5. The Environmental Protection Court of the Pejople’s court of Tiexi
District, Shenyang, Liaoning province (June, 2006);
6. The E. P. Trial Court of the Intermediate Court of Guiyang,
Guizhou province and the E.P.Court of the Court of Qingzhen
Municipality under its jurisdiction (November, 2007);
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§2.0. Specialized Environment Justice Agency
7. The Circuit Court of Environmental Protection of Jianye District,
Nanjing, Jiangsu (Feb. 2008);
8. The E.P. Tribunal of the Intermediate Court of Wuxi
Municipality (May, 2008);
9. The Circuit Court of the People’s Court of Xinbei District,
Changzhou, Jiangsu province (August, 2008);
10. Trial Division of Environmental Protection of the Intermediate
People’s Court of Kunming Municipaality, Yunnan Province
(Nov. 2008);
11. The E.P. Tribunal of Shangma Court of Chengyang District of
Qingdao in Shandong Province (April, 2010)
12. The Tribunal on Ecology and Resources at the Intermediate
Court of Zhangzhou Municipality in Fujian Province (May,2010)
13.
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§2.0. Specialized Environment Justice Agency
福建首个生态资源
审判庭在漳州成立
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§3.0 在中国建立专门环境司法机构的作用
Potentials Roles of the specialized environment justice agencies
Judging from the juridical practice home and abroad, especially the recent
experiment with several specialized environment justice agencies in China,
the establishment of such agencies is not only an inherent demand for the
practice of environment justice but also offers the following significant
potentials:
Changing the situation that the courts don’t like to accept
environment cases;
 Improving Judges’ Expertise in Environmental Law in the
Shortest Time;
 Promoting Judicatory Impartiality in Environment Cases ;
 Strengthening the Authority of the Environmental Law.
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§4.0 环境法庭建设的最新发展
法院系统把建立环境法庭作为司法改革和创新的
内容之一；
 最高法院曾专门对此进行调研，但结论不一；
 许多地方已开始建立更多的环境法庭：
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 海南省高级人民法院决定在全省普遍建立环境法庭；
 上海市将建立综合性的环境保护审判庭；
 福建省正计划将全省的林业法庭转变为生态和资源法庭；
 北京市高级法院在2009年正式发文在全市的法院建立环
境保护合议庭，今年在延庆县建立了一个环境法庭。
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今后的纪念内环境法庭将在各地方陆续建立。
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THANK
YOU
VERY
MUCH!
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