A local people's court is a

court A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance ...

at local level of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. According to the ''

Organic Law of the People's Courts Organic may refer to: * Organic, of or relating to an organism, a living entity * Organic, of or relating to an anatomical organ (anatomy), organ Chemistry * Organic matter, matter that has come from a once-living organism, is capable of decay or ...

'', the local people's courts includes: *

High people's court A high people's court or higher people's court (高级人民法院) is the highest local court in the People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List o ...

s * Intermediate people's courts *

Primary people's court A primary people's court () is a lowest level court in the Courts of General Jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China. According to the '' Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China'', the basic people's courts ha ...

s During the 1940s and 1950s, people's courts were village meetings in which peasants would engage in airing grievances about their landlords. These were known as 诉苦会 ''sùkǔhuì'' “speak bitterness meetings” and were often organized by

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

militants for the denunciation of landlords. They have been described as a form of

kangaroo court A kangaroo court is a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc. A kangaroo court may ignore due process and come ...

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