The case number refers to a brief identification used to distinguish the type and order of cases handled by courts at all levels. It consists of Chinese characters, Arabic numerals and brackets. After the court and other judicial authorities file a case, they classify the cases received according to the nature of the case and register them with assigned case numbers.

The basic elements of the case number are the year of case acceptance, court code, type code, and case number.

The year in which the case is accepted is the Gregorian calendar year in which the case is accepted, expressed in Arabic numerals.

The court code is a simplified identification of the court handling the case, expressed in Chinese characters and Arabic numerals.

Type code is the abbreviation of case type, expressed in Chinese characters.

The case number is the sequence number of the case, expressed in Arabic numerals.

Extended information

Notes:

1. Determining the type of case should be based on the nature of the legal relationship of the matters involved in the case and the characteristics of the applicable procedures. . The type code should be concise and accurately reflect the core characteristics of the type of case, and should be expressed with no more than 3 Chinese characters. The type code for each type of case should be unique.

2. Case numbers of the same type of code shall be arranged with sequential natural numbers according to the order in which the cases are received in the same year, except for the circumstances specified in paragraph 2. The number of a criminal review case is an 8-digit natural number with a fixed length, which is randomly determined by the court in charge and must not be compiled sequentially.

3. For cases with different types of code names handled by different courts or handled by the same court, their numbers should be compiled separately.

4. When the administrative division changes but the corresponding intermediate and grassroots courts do not make corresponding adjustments, the court code shall be compiled according to the original administrative division code. If the circumstances of intermediate and basic courts change as a result of the rules listed in paragraph 2 of Article 5 that originally applied to them, the court code shall be prepared according to the coding rules that shall apply to the circumstances after the change.

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