supreme people 's court

Notice on Adjusting the Classification of Compulsory Liquidation and Bankruptcy Cases

Fa [2016] No. 237

Higher People's Courts of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, Military Courts of the People's Liberation Army, and Production and Construction Corps Branch of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Higher People's Court:

In order to meet the needs of the trial work of compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy cases, according to Article 7 and Article 14 of the "Several Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Case Numbers of People's Courts", it is decided to separately classify the types of compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy cases (see Annex "Types and Nomenclature Standards for Compulsory Liquidation and Bankruptcy Cases" for details). The adjustment content and related matters are hereby notified as follows:

1、 Compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy cases are separated from civil cases and treated as a separate category of cases. The first level category names are integrated into compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy cases.

2、 Classify compulsory liquidation, bankruptcy application review, and accepted compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy procedures into different types of cases, that is, treat compulsory liquidation or bankruptcy application review as a separate category of cases.

3、 The appeal review of decisions such as rejection or rejection of compulsory liquidation applications or bankruptcy applications is divided into two subcategories as compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy appeal cases: compulsory liquidation appeal cases and bankruptcy appeal cases.

4、 The supervision of cases involving the rejection or rejection of applications for compulsory liquidation or bankruptcy, as well as appeals for compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy, is divided into two categories: compulsory liquidation supervision cases and bankruptcy supervision cases.

5、 The new standards for the classification of compulsory liquidation and bankruptcy cases, as well as the use of substitute characters, came into effect on August 1, 2016. The case numbers established before August 1, 2016 remain unchanged.

Hereby notified.