What's wrong with this lawyer?!

In a hotel room in Lincheng City, Old Tang was already preparing the statement of claim.

To tell the truth, this case was not difficult at all, and could even be said to be much simpler than the last case he filed against the court in Anchang District.

The main problem lay in the special legal status of the Lincheng City Intermediate Court.

The last case against the court in Anchang District, which served as the defendant, was nothing more than a housekeeping labor dispute, a historical issue that was just about losing face.

But this time was different; on one hand, it was the Intermediate Court, and what was the status of that? In our country's four-tier court system, the Intermediate Court is at the third level, a level quite high for many people.

What a concept for such a unit to be the defendant!

On the other hand, although this litigation was just a civil dispute, it involved other matters. For many years, the unspoken rule was that you could sue as you please, but the court decided when the hearing would be held.

If the court said it could be held today, then it would be today; if they said it couldn't be held today, then you'd just have to accept your bad luck because in this instance, the court was in a dominant position.

Without a lawyer, a case could still proceed, but without a court, how could you argue your case?

Yet Old Tang didn't believe in such nonsense; he wanted to see how the Intermediate Court felt once it found out it was the defendant! Enjoy new stories from My Virtual Library Empire

Old Zhou had already prepared the evidence for the case: notices of appeal from the higher court, recordings of telephone conversations between Old Zhou and the court clerk, round-trip high-speed rail tickets, and electronic invoices for accommodation.

"Old Tang, adding it all up, that's a total of one thousand nine hundred forty-five yuan and twenty cents," Old Zhou glanced at the evidence in his hands and then spoke up.

On one side, Old Tang nodded and said, "Okay, let's go by this figure."

After hesitating for a moment, Old Zhou still couldn't help but ask, "So where do you plan to sue, the Superior Court? After all, the defendant here is the Intermediate Court, the level is already quite high, we can't possibly go and file the statement of claim there, right?"

At these words, Old Tang immediately chuckled, "We certainly can't go to the Intermediate Court to file the statement of claim. For this case, the jurisdictional court to initiate the lawsuit should be the court in Jinhui District."

What? Old Zhou was stunned. When he heard the first part of that sentence, he was very calm, as everyone would think of that – if the Intermediate Court was the defendant, it sure wasn't possible to go there to file the statement of claim.

According to Old Zhou's thinking, it should be directly taken to the Superior Court.

Instead, the other party had just named a district court. A district court is a grassroots level court, subordinate to the Lincheng City Intermediate Court!

"No, Old Tang, you're going to the Jinhui District Court to sue Lincheng City Court? Are you sure you're all right?" Old Zhou couldn't help but retort, "Or did this recent surgery damage your brain?"

"It's you who didn't think of it, Old Zhou!" Old Tang stood up and said, "Let me ask you, what kind of civil cases does the Intermediate Court have first instance jurisdiction over?"

This question was basic, any lawyer could answer it, so Old Zhou casually replied, "Foreign-related cases, cases within their own jurisdiction with significant impact, and designated jurisdiction cases. What's the issue?"

"You know that the Intermediate Court only deals with these kinds of civil cases, right? So I'll ask you another question, do you think our lawsuit for these travel expenses of less than two thousand yuan falls into what type of case?" Old Tang continued.

Upon hearing this, Old Zhou was stunned again. It seemed... this indeed had not reached the threshold of having a significant impact, nor was it a foreign-related case, and neither the Superior Court nor the Supreme Court had designated jurisdiction.

According to the "Civil Procedure Law," this seemed indeed to be under the jurisdiction of the grassroots people's courts.

Old Tang sat back down and continued writing, muttering, "The Lincheng City Intermediate Court is located in Jinhui District, so naturally, there's no problem with suing there."

After all, this was merely a civil dispute; no matter what, it was still a civil dispute, not within the level of jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court.

Since it wasn't a case that the law specified to be under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court, it naturally fell under the jurisdiction of the basic-level court, with no issue at all.

Old Tang only took one morning to prepare all the necessary materials for filing the lawsuit; he was a man who did not delay taking revenge. He grabbed his briefcase and headed straight for the Jinhui District Court.

Jinhui District was the most developed district in Lincheng City, so the court there was also quite large, at any rate Old Tang felt it was much more impressive than the court in Bright District.

Arriving at the entrance, he didn't rush inside, but first took out his phone to take a photo. Then he could go back and mock Old Zhou, boasting the provincial capital city couldn't hold a candle to the courts in Lincheng.

Thinking this, Old Tang held his briefcase and started queuing for the security check.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and there were many people in the Jinhui District Court's case filing office, with lawyers likely making up two-thirds of them.

It was common to see parties filing their own lawsuits in grassroots courts, but most of those were after consulting lawyers or having lawyers draft their statements of claim.

In fact, many cases did not require a lawyer; one could ponder and file a lawsuit on their own, familiarity comes with experience. After doing it often, one gets used to it.

In the filing office, the clerk Li Jiayan was busy attending to people, with sweat on her palms.

Dealing with lawsuits filed by lawyers was one thing, but ordinary people filing lawsuits often posed all sorts of peculiar problems that she had to clarify one by one. Otherwise, just one complaint could overwhelm her.

Front-line grassroots staff are always the busiest.

After finally dealing with the previous case, the number-calling machine announced the next. Li Jiayan then saw a young man with a pale face walking over.

But that was not the key point; the focal point was the colossal briefcase the young man was carrying!