The major duties:

1、To implement the guidelines and policies and enforce laws, rules and regulations related to the judicial administration work; to study and draw up the drafts of local rules, regulations and policies on the judicial administration work in the light of the actual circumstances in the Municipality, and organize the implementation of relevant rules, regulations and policies.

2、To formulate this Municipality’s medium-term, long-term and annual development planning of judicial administration and organize its implementation; to supervise and carry out the system of responsibility of judicial administrative law enforcement.

3、To supervise and direct the work of jail administration.

4、To supervise and direct the work of reform through labor.

5、To formulate the plans on the propaganda of legal system and the popularization of legal knowledge, and organize the implementation; to direct all districts/counties and all trades to carry out the relevant work of to rule according to law.

6、To administrate and direct work of lawyers and the work of counselors enterprises; to administrate social legal service agencies; to administrate foreign(overseas) law firms which are set up in Shanghai; to administrate this Municipality’s law firms which are set up overseas.

7、To administrate and direct notarization agencies and notarial affairs activities.

8、To administrate and direct people’s mediation work, legal affairs assistants work and grass roots legal service work. To assist relevant agencies to direct the work of replacement and helping and educating persons who are released from criminal penalty and reform through labor.

9、To undertake routine work of the Municipal Committee of Judicial Appraisal Work.

10、To administrate and direct legal aid work. To direct the work of the legal service special telephone 148.

11、To be responsible for the examination and verification, under authorize the plan and transmitting the report of the plan of fixed assets investment items of units directly under the bureau; to supervise and administrate the state assets in the scope of entrusted by the municipal state assets administrative department; to supervise and direct the work of investment of fixed assets of the prison and reform through labor system.

12、To be responsible for handling of administrative reconsideration cases and responding to administrative litigations.

13、To be responsible for the work of foreign affairs, the work of propaganda and exchange to overseas of the judicial administration system.