BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese courts heard 14.89 million new cases in the first six months of this year, up 14.54 percent year on year, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Wednesday.
Each of the country's 126,000 judges heard 118.4 cases on average in the Jan.-June period. And judges in Beijing were the busiest, with each of them hearing an average of more than 210 cases, followed by those in the southwest municipality of Chongqing and south China's Guangdong Province, the SPC press release said.
In the past six months, courts across China closed 11.9 million cases, up 17.14 percent, with each judge closing 94.6 cases on average, the SPC said in the press release.
Contract disputes, marital and family disputes, tort liabilities, employment disputes and intellectual property rights made up the most of the civil cases closed from January to June, while among the criminal cases closed, crimes related to hazardous dangerous driving, theft, intentional injury, fraud as well as smuggling, trafficking in, transporting and manufacturing narcotic drugs were the most common.
