As an important institution of national governance, the court plays a key role in maintaining social justice and legal order, and is a mediator of national order. In the wave of digital economy development, intelligent court office has become the general trend. In this situation, the court intelligent auxiliary office platform came into being. In December 2022, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Opinions on Regulating and Strengthening the Judicial Application of Artificial Intelligence". According to Chen Qiwei, Chief Engineer of the Information Center of the Supreme People's Court, the full-process intelligent assisted case handling supported by the application of judicial artificial intelligence can effectively reduce the routine work of judges by more than 30% and improve the efficiency of court trials by more than 20%.
1. Current status and development goals of court informatization application
(1) Application Status
1. The contradiction between the number of cases and the number of cases is prominent
The "Supreme People's Court Work Report" of the National Two Sessions in 2023 pointed out that the number of judicial enforcement cases has exceeded 30 million for two consecutive years. The number of cases handled per judge will increase from 187 in 2017 to 242 in 2022. Improving the efficiency of case handling has always been a matter of great concern to the people's courts. Justice not only has to be done, but it has to be done in time.
2. Lots of repetitive transactional work
During the trial process, there are a lot of repetitive routine work, all of which are manually operated by judges. The repetitive labor with a relatively simple process greatly reduces the freedom of judges' work and consumes a lot of judicial resources.
3. The workload of information entry is heavy
There are many nodes and operation modules in the trial and enforcement process, and a large amount of information needs to be entered manually. Because the case needs to go out to handle the case, the case-handling information needs to be supplemented. The input is not timely, and there are many cases of repeated input.
(2) Development goals of court informatization
According to the requirements of the "Five-Year Development Plan for Informatization Construction of the People's Courts (2021-2025)", continuously improve the quality and efficiency of trial execution, fully realize the intelligent assistance of trial execution, leave traces, prompt reminders, regularly remind, and real-time On the basis of automatic and silent auxiliary functions such as early warning and timely freezing, new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain are further used to provide precise intelligent auxiliary functions and improve judicial credibility.
2. Court intelligent assistant solution
(1) The organizational structure of the court's intelligent auxiliary office
1. System architecture
2. Scenario-based service
Litigation service stage: self-guided litigation guidance service; contact judge service; self-help mediation service; mediation information backfill service.
Case filing stage: intelligent backfilling of case filing information; automatic identification of sensitive information; automatic review of case filing materials; automatic case division.
Trial stage: synchronization of court hearing schedule; reminder of court hearing time node; one-click trial opening; one-click closing.
Case closing stage: one-click filing of electronic files; automatic review of archived files; automatic generation of documents; one-click access to the Internet in batches of documents.
Execution stage: automatic query of property information; automatic confirmation of property information; automatic control of property information; feedback analysis of investigation and control information.
Auction stage: risk warning service; screening of sensitive personnel; information entry of transaction targets; active notification service.
Judicial assistance: one-click delivery of documents; delivery information review service; automatic review of delivery information; automatic confirmation of delivery notices.
(2) Objectives of court intelligent assistance
1. Construction goals
Breaking technical barriers: Using artificial intelligence technology to break through the bottleneck of existing information technology and accelerate the construction of smart courts.
Bonding system correlation: use artificial intelligence technology to bond incompatible systems to improve the integration of systems at all levels.
Improve work quality and efficiency: promote the automation of case handling, strengthen the review mechanism, release manpower, and improve quality and efficiency.
Simplify the operation process: Build a multi-system process automation operation platform to complete complex business processes with simple operations.
Build a data continent: use the method of target picking to open up the data interface, so that the data island becomes a data continent.
Building an AI operation and management center: building an artificial intelligence-assisted case-handling operation and management center for the people's courts, so that artificial intelligence can truly exert its value.
It has assisted in the construction of smart courts in many provinces/municipalities/autonomous regions across the country, and has played an important role in improving the quality and efficiency of trials, shortening the time for enforcement investigation and control, and improving the efficiency of application systems. It has become an indispensable technology for the construction of smart courts.
2. Application goals
Automatically complete a large number of repetitive and regular work
to realize the intelligence and automation of the trial and enforcement business process of the people's courts. Based on process automation, it can handle and execute business work around the clock and help judges automatically complete a large number of repetitive and regular work. It can effectively guarantee the timeliness of information.
Improve the disconnection and breakpoints between different business systems
Utilizing the technical characteristics of process automation can give full play to the role of the "glue" of court informatization, improve the disconnection and breakpoints between different business systems, and then help the courts to aggregate and form internally A complete automated process system is equipped with an "engine" for the court trial execution routine work.
3. Application effect:
Promote professional trials, improve the quality and efficiency of trials
, solve the contradiction of "many cases and few cases", release the complicated work from filing to filing, help judges to reduce the burden to the greatest extent, let judges concentrate on trial, judgment, and writing, and promote the ranks of judges The professionalization and professionalization of the construction, and the efficiency of automatic handling of matters is expected to increase by 60%.
Intelligent support, process-based operation
Promote the construction of smart courts with innovative applications, realize the innovation of management models and case-handling methods, use technology to liberate productivity, use digital assistance to improve labor force, and form a new case-handling pattern in which manpower and digitalization complement each other and promote each other. Intensive automated processing is expected to increase by 72%.
3. Customer case
(1) Real Intelligence × People's Court of Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province
Project content:
Automatically log in to the execution system every day, retrieve cases by case number, and automatically conduct general-to-total and point-to-point property information inquiries on cases. According to the information of the person subject to enforcement in the case, the person subject to enforcement is in 53 banks, and the amount of account funds on 3 Internet fund platforms is frozen. Automatically log in to the enforcement case handling system, search for the pending cases of the day in the pending cases, and generate execution in batches Documents, online editing of execution notices, property inspection orders, modification of the content of documents, and addition of necessary data (formats of parties, subject fees, etc.).
(2) Real Intelligence × People's Court of Yiyuan County, Shandong Province
Project content:
Automatically search the applicant's historical cases when filing a case, and judge whether it is a duplicate filing. If there is an application for the same case, the filing will not be approved. When the court is open, the three systems of clerk client, voice transcription, and webcast are automatically opened, and each system has data input. Before the case is closed, the documents involved in the case are automatically corrected one by one. The parties independently join the group, judges, clerks And the way that the mediator automatically joins the group.