Supreme People's Court

Circular on Matters Concerning the Standardization of Case Numbers as they Pertain to Multiple Judgement Documents derived from the Same Case

Fa〔2016〕No. 37

High people's courts of all provinces, autonomous regions and directly governed municipalities, the PLA military courts, High People's Court of Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region branch of the production and construction Corps:

So as to standardize the usage of case numbers for multiple judgment documents derived from the same case, to facilitate distinction and recognition, and to satisfy the needs of the actual enforcement of judgments, notice of the following is hereby given:

I. The case numbers assigned to a specific cases are unique, and courts at each level shall standardize their usage in judgment documents. Where a single case puts forward multiple judgment documents that are of the same type, the first judgment document shall directly use the case number, and subsequent documents shall have the case number followed by “-1”, “-2” and so forth to distinguish the documents.

II, Where a single case puts forward multiple judgment documents of different types, there is no need make additions after the case number to distinguish documents as described above.

III. When a single case has multiple judgment documents and at least two of the documents are of the same category, then make additions after the case name as described above beginning from the second case in every category, so as to distinguish them.

IV. The types of judgment documents mentioned above include written judgments, written rulings, mediation documents, decisions, and also notices.

Appendix: Examples of Case-Number-Suffixes Used for Multiple Adjudicative Documents from the Same Case

2/1/2016

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Examples of Case-Number-Suffixes Used for Multiple Adjudicative Documents derived from the Same Case

A. The case number assigned to a specific case is unique, and courts at each level shall standardize its usage in adjudicative documents. Where there are multiple judgment documents that are of the same category and are derived from the same case, the case number shall be used in the first adjudicative document. For subsequent documents, “之一”, “之二” etc. shall be added after the case number in order to distinguish the documents.

1. The first ruling in a an enforcement case from court X:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Enforcement Ruling

(201-) X 01 Enforcement No.8

2. The second ruling in an enforcement case of Court X:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Enforcement Ruling

（201-） X 01 Enforcement No. 8-1

3. The third ruling in an enforcement case of Court X:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Enforcement Ruling

(201-) X 01 Enforcement No.8-2

II, Where a single case puts forward multiple judgment documents of different types, there is no need make additions after the case number to distinguish documents as described above.

1. Court X's ruling on an objection to jurisdiction in the first-instance trial of a case:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Civil Ruling

(201_) X 01 Initial Civil No. 9

2．Court X's first-instance judgment:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Civil Judgment

(201_) X 01 Initial Civil No. 9

III. When a single case has multiple judgment documents and at least two of the documents are of the same category, then make additions after the case name as described above beginning from the second case in every category, so as to distinguish them.

1. Court X's ruling on an objection to jurisdiction in the first-instance trial of a case:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Civil Ruling

(201-) X 01 Initial Civil No. 10

2．Court X's ruling first ruling given on enforcement during the first-instance case:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Civil Ruling

(201-) X 01 Civil Initial No. 10-1

3. A court’s interlocutory judgment during the first instance trial of a case:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Civil Judgment

(201-) X 01 Initial Civil No. 10

4. A court’s final judgment of the first instance trial of a case:

XXXXX Intermediate People’s Court

Civil Judgment

(201-) X 01 Civil Initial No. 10-1