Chapter 64: Pre-trial Preparations
Li Yunru dressed very dignified and capable, quite a business tycoon, I heard that after Xie Yongchen's death, Minyue Province Sun, Moon and Xingchen Real Estate Co., Ltd. under her auspices did not fall and scatter as everyone imagined, but thrived.
A few days ago, under her auspices, the company actually crossed several central military enterprises and photographed a piece of land in Baishui Prefecture, which surprised some people who wanted to watch a good show.
The judges of the collegial panel formed by the Baishui Prefecture Intermediate People's Court to hear Xie Yongchen's inheritance dispute were President Zhang Qingfen, and the other was Judge He, another president of the First Civil Division.
Huang Yixi originally thought it was strange, generally speaking, there were members of the collegial panel on the summons for serving the complaint or the notice of hearing, but this time there was not, and she thought that the clerk had omitted it and didn't care.
Huang Yixi's original solemn mood was even more raised, you must know that these two senior judges are independent judges even in major and difficult cases, and Judge Luo rarely appears in court, and there are two clerks who appear in court at the same time, as soon as this lineup is put out, it immediately caused an uproar.
Collegial panel, or collegial tribunal, is an organizational form in which three or more adjudicators or adjudicators and people's assessors collectively try cases.
In first-instance criminal, civil, and economic dispute cases, the people's courts are to conduct trials by a single judge, except for some simple cases, and the rest of the cases are tried by adjudicators or by a collegial panel composed of adjudicators and people's assessors, and the number of members must be an odd number.
However, in fact, due to the huge gap in the number of judges, the proper function of the collegial panel system itself has not been brought into play, and it is even a well-known fact that in some courts, the collegial panel adjudication is purely a formality and has no real name.
In layman's terms, a case is generally handled by a judge or even a trial, and the other two members of the collegial panel have only read the trial documents.
Even if there are three judges at the beginning of the trial, except for the judge who is handling the case, the other two judges are deaf ears and are just decorations.
And this kind of trial mode of more than three judges and five plus two, Huang Yixi has only seen it once in the report of a multi-person gang case of anti-gang crime.
It was not only Huang Yixi who was shocked, but also reporters from five or six news media who came to interview Baishui Prefecture TV and Baishui Evening News.
"Don't worry, it should be because of the merger of multiple cases, except for President Zhang, other judges generally do not speak. ”
As if seeing the worry in Huang Yixi's heart, Shang Luoyu comforted him.
This is also the case, in the collegial panel, except for the presiding judge, the other judges are just a number of judges. Huang Yixi relaxed his mind a little and looked at Shang Luoyu.
It was the first time she was in court with Shang Luoyu at the same time, and it was also the first time she saw him in court.
I have long heard that Shang Luoyu is the only lawyer in Baishui Prefecture who wears a lawyer's robe in court.
He insisted on his legal robe no matter how the judge, the prosecutor or the opposing lawyer dressed in court, and many male lawyers talked about his fake gentlemanly habits behind his back, and many female lawyers praised his appearance.
Although he had heard of it, after seeing it with his own eyes today, Huang Yixi was still a little shocked.
Although Shang Luoyu has fitness habits and has also practiced taekwondo, he looks polite and polite on the outside, and he doesn't seem to be a muscular person.
Shang Luo looks good in a suit, he has broad shoulders, narrow waist and long legs, he can afford a suit without shoulder pads, he belongs to the type that looks thin when he wears it and has meat when he takes it off.
But his face is cute, so Huang Yixi never thought that he would look good in a lawyer's robe, after all, a cute face of a little milk dog is wearing a lawyer's robe, just like a teenager wearing an uncle's coat.
But Shang Luoyu dressed it completely different from what Huang Yixi imagined, he wore a lawyer's robe no less than he wore a suit, and his whole face became serious, which made people convincing.
Originating in Europe, the early robes were not reserved for lawyers and judges, but were a form of clothing for the upper class of Europe, a status symbol.
In traditional English courts, only barristers were allowed to wear a lawyer's gown and a wig.
Trial lawyers are divided into royal counsel and ordinary lawyers, with royal counsel wearing silk robes and ordinary lawyers wearing cloth robes.
The lawyer's gown is not only worn in court, but also on important occasions such as celebrations, and is a status symbol.
According to the provisions of the Supreme People's Court, lawyers should wear lawyers' robes when appearing in court. But this is only a rule, not a law.
Many people in China are resistant to lawyers' robes for no more than four reasons.
The first is the resistance to foreign cultures.
The second is the trouble of wearing a lawyer's robe, which must be equipped with a white shirt, a black lawyer's robe, a fuchsia lawyer's robe tie, and a lawyer's badge.
The third is that the quality of the domestic lawyer's robe is not good, the lawyer's robe is not wrinkled, and the material is smooth, so it will hang down and cling to the body, and the material is still shiny black, just like a refugee soaked in water.
If it were a fat man dressing, imagine it.
The robe clings snugly to the body. A shiny, fat black man wears close-fitting clothes, a pair of wings, and a dark red tie on his chest.
Doesn't it look like an angry fat bird?
Fourth, due to geographical reasons, when the trial is held in the hot summer, you have to wear such a lawyer's robe, which is fine when there is air conditioning, but when there is no air conditioning, I am afraid that I will suffer from heat stroke before the court is finished.
But wearing a lawyer's robe also has the benefits of a lawyer's robe, and the seriousness of the ritual gives the lawyer a little more courage to confront the judge and the prosecutor.
Think of the scene in the criminal courtroom, where the judge wears a uniform, the prosecutor wears a uniform, and only the lawyer wears a colorful and loose uniform.
It's a pity that the Supreme People's Court has been calling for several years, and many lawyers don't have this awareness.
Huang Yixi has neither Shang Luoyu's persistence nor resistance to the lawyer's robe, she wears the legal gown with her every court session, and if the other party wears it, she will also wear it, although it does not come in handy in most cases.
Today, I saw Shang Luoyu put on a robe on the corridor, and she also put it on.
Speaking of so many courts, there is no place where a lawyer can change into a lawyer's robe.
Both of them are wearing white shirts and black trousers, but they don't need to bother, just put them on.
Li Jianren is wearing a light purple silk shirt today, this shirt is custom-made in Hong Kong, a shirt costs more than 37,000 Hong Kong dollars, and a cufflink alone costs 900 Hong Kong dollars.
After contacting the interview yesterday, Li Jianren also went to fix his hair, and sprayed perfume in the morning, seeing Huang Yixi and Shang Luoyu wearing legal robes, he couldn't help but show a stupid expression on his face, and smiled evilly in his heart, the judges in Baishui Prefecture only have short-sleeved uniforms in court, and these two stupid hats, shirts, and trousers put on legal robes on hot days, because they are afraid of the heat and will not kill them.
There are silly forks every year, not as much as this year.