From May 23rd to 25th, the twelfth round of King&Capital Criminal Defense Practical Training Workshop was held in Beijing. The workshop is held every 6 sessions, and this time, as the final course of the second round of the workshop, the content centered on the pre-trial conference and the exclusion of illegal evidence. Participants from Tibet, Guangdong and other parts of the country gathered together to explore the difficulties and misunderstandings in pre-trial meetings and exclusion of illegal evidence through immersive simulation exercises and small-class practical teaching under the guidance of the consultant team and lecturer team.
Chu Changzhi
Managing Partner and CEO of King&Capital Law Firm
The opening ceremony was hosted and addressed by Chu Changzhi, Managing Partner and CEO of King&Capital Law Firm. He introduced, King&Capital criminal defense practical training workshop using the Northwest University of Political Science and Law training model, after more than ten polishing and practice, has gradually formed a complete set of criminal defense training model. The course continues the four teaching characteristics of “no identity, no standard answer, high brainstorming and full sharing of resources”, and focuses on two major topics of pre-trial conference practice and illegal evidence exclusion through the immersive learning of “theoretical teaching, simulation exercise and real-time feedback”. Evidence exclusion of two major topics. Chu Changzhi hoped that the students would make full use of the weekend time in the King&Capital criminal defense training workshop to learn from each other and go deeper and farther on the professional road.
Men Jinling
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Doctor of Litigation Law, Peking University
Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University (retired)
Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Criminal Defense, Northwest University of Political Science and Law
Ms. Men Jinling, Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm, delivered a speech on behalf of the Advisory Panel. She explained the value of continuous learning with her personal experience, “The meaning of learning is a sense of conviction that permeates you, a cognitive ability, an eye view as well as the accumulation of specialized knowledge.” She emphasized that the work of a legal person is never vulgarized literacy can do the work, the real lawyers and the realization of the ideal of the rule of law must be the collapse of the heart and mind, dedicated to study the most profound, the most professional criminal defense technology. Finally, Mr. Men Jinling hoped that through this seminar, the participants could experience the skills of reasoning, clarifying procedural issues, as well as the skills of precisely excluding illegal evidence.
Zang Desheng
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Director of Case Law Research Society of China Law Society
Practical tutor for postgraduate students of China University of Political Science and Law and other colleges and universities.
Zang Desheng, Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm, spoke on behalf of the lecturer group on the topic of pre-trial conference. “How a lawyer can be invincible and even stand out in difficult times is what every criminal defense lawyer needs to focus on.”
Attorney Zang Desheng, who has had actual trial experience, talked about how a good refined defense may be the current way to break through for lawyers who focus on professionalism and skills, and that pre-trial conferences provide a wide space for refined defense, allowing criminal defense lawyers to be more productive.
Mr. Zang Desheng finally emphasized that there is no fixed routine for each part of criminal defense, and he hoped that the participants could grasp the basic principles through the study, and then go to adapt and apply them flexibly according to the situation of the case.
Liu Lijie
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Doctor of Criminal Law, China University of Political Science and Law
Practice Tutor, China University of Political Science and Law
Practice Tutor, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Law School
“Illegal evidence exclusion is one of the few rights given to lawyers by the Criminal Procedure Law to conduct effective defense that has both defensive and offensive effects.” Lijie Liu, senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, spoke as a representative of the lecturer group on the topic of illegal evidence exclusion. Liu Lijie compared the illegal evidence exclusion system to “borrowing arrows from a straw boat”, and encouraged the participants to use professionalism and wisdom to find the “source of the arrows”, and use courage and strength to counter the prosecution's “attack”. Lawyer Liu Lijie hoped that through learning and practicing the procedures, methods and skills of rowing non-professionals, the students could be able to talk about, defend and develop their careers, that is to say, to gain the trust of the clients through their own professionalism, to achieve the defense results, and to win the respect of the legal community.
Yang Haiming
Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Director of Beijing Criminology Research Association
Mr. Yang Haiming, partner of King&Capital Law Firm, spoke in conjunction with the course design and review summary of this session. “A thing only when you are really involved in it, you can realize this problem that may exist in yourself.” Mr. Yang emphasized the importance of “participatory learning” in the King&Capital Criminal Defense Workshop, and briefly introduced the four modules of the pre-trial conference focus. Finally, he hoped that through the three-day and two-night immersion learning, the participants could break through the inherent cognitive framework, systematically improve their professional skills in criminal defense, and inject new momentum into their career development.
Tian Wenchang
General Counsel of King&Capital Hall of Fame
Honorary Director of King&Capital Law Firm
Honorary Advisor of China Society of Criminal Law
Advisor of Criminal Committee of All-China Lawyers Association
Honorary Director and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense, Northwestern University of Political Science and Law
Tian Wenchang, Honorary Dean and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute for Advanced Research in Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, and Honorary Director of King&Capital Law Firm, presented the latest closed-door lecture, “The Procedure of Just Debate is the Basis - Reasons for Non-Conviction Cases of Public Prosecution and Focuses of Trial Debate from the Function of the Law” to the students.
“What is the essence of law?” “Why are there prosecutions without convictions?” “Is there any rationality in our pursuit of a prosecution success rate of ninety-nine point something percent?” According to Mr. Tian Wenchang, in order to deeply understand these questions, it is necessary to talk about the basic function of the law and address the cognition from the root.
He said that the essence of the law is not justice but order, justice is only a means to maintain the maintenance of order, the basic function of the law is to maintain social order. Tian Wenchang told the students, learning the law must not only read the provisions, only look at the skin, to make the true meaning of the law clear, principles, principles, concepts, only in this way, all the problems can be solved, in order to achieve a pass, a comprehensive and coherent.
Alice Liang
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Director of King&Capital Criminal Defense Research Center
Executive Director of China Criminal Law Research Association
Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Criminal Defense Studies, Northwest University of Political Science and Law
Nie Sufang
Senior Partner, King&Capital Law Firm
Researcher of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense, Northwestern University of Political Science and Law
Member of Chinese Society of Criminal Law
Member of Criminology Research Society of Beijing Law Society
Zhang Xiaofeng
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Researcher of the Institute of Criminal Defense, Northwest University of Political Science and Law
The course topics were commented and guided by Tian Wenchang, honorary dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, doctoral scholar and honorary director of King&Capital Law Firm, Men Jinling, deputy dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law and senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, and Liang Yali, deputy dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law and director of King&Capital Criminal Discussion and Protection Research Center.
King&Capital Law Firm senior partner Zang Desheng and partner Yang Haiming explained the basic concept of the pre-trial conference system, the filing of jurisdictional objections and applications for disqualification, the relevant applications and provision of evidence in the pre-trial conference as well as the negotiation on the mode of proof and cross-examination, and organized the practical exercises. Lecturers Liu Lijie, Nie Sufang and Zhang Xiaofeng, senior partners of King&Capital Law Firm, discussed in-depth from the perspectives of the causes of illegal evidence and exclusion procedures, difficulties, methods and misunderstandings in the exclusion of illegal evidence, and systematically organized interactive exercises for the participants.
By the end of the twelfth session of King&Capital Criminal Defense Practical Training Seminar, King&Capital Criminal Defense Seminar has attracted the participation of hundreds of lawyers from many places in the country, and its practice of “small class teaching, problem-oriented” criminal defense practical training mode of Xifa University is profoundly affecting the construction of the professionalization of the skills of criminal lawyers in China.
At present, two rounds of King&Capital criminal defense practical training workshops have been completed, the first phase of the third round of “reception and meeting” will be held in July 2025, and welcome lawyers to continue to pay attention.
