Abstract: | With a view to bringing into full play the role of guiding cases in unifying standards for the application of law, the Supreme People's Court promulgated the Second Five-Year Program for the Reform of People's Courts (hereinafter referred to as "the Second Five-Year Reform Program") on October 26, 2005, providing: "We shall establish and improve a system of case guidance, and attach importance to the role of guiding legal cases in unifying standards for the application of law, guiding the work of adjudication by courts at lower levels, enriching and developing jurisprudential theories, etc. The Supreme People's Court will work out regulatory documents on the system of case guidance to make provisions for the standards and procedure for the selection and compilation of guiding legal cases, the way of promulgation of guiding legal cases, the rules for case guidance, etc." |