How many family members can go to court?

When the court opened, it was not clearly stipulated how many family members would go. In criminal trials, the number of family members of the defendant is generally unlimited. For cases with great influence and wide coverage, there may be many people attending, and the court will use side hearings to control the attendance. When the attendance seats cannot meet the needs, the people's court may issue the attendance seats in the order of application or by drawing lots or shaking numbers, but priority shall be given to the close relatives of the parties or other interested parties to attend the case.

Hearing in court refers to the process of hearing a case in a court or other suitable place after the people's court completes the preparatory work before hearing.

Trial is the core stage of court trial procedure. The trial procedure can be divided into three basic stages: pre-trial preparation, trial (that is, trial in court) and effective judgment execution. The result of the trial is a judgment (that is, a judgment or ruling), and the judgment made by the court becomes an effective judgment after meeting the effective conditions, and the effective judgment enters the execution procedure.

Trial in court is the stage when the collegial panel conducts substantive trial of the case. The main ways are public trial and closed trial. Among them, public trial is the principle, and closed trial is the exception or supplement. Take civil litigation as an example: According to Article 120 of the Civil Procedure Law, the people's court shall try civil cases in public unless it involves state secrets, personal privacy or otherwise provided by law. Divorce cases and cases involving commercial secrets may be heard in private upon the application of the parties. It can be seen that divorce cases are generally heard in public, but if the parties apply for a non-public hearing, they can not hear it in public, and the decision is in the people's court. The reason why the law stipulates that "if a party applies for a private hearing, it can do so" is because divorce cases have their particularity. During the trial, there may be personal privacy and emotional content that you are unwilling to disclose. Therefore, if the parties apply for a closed hearing, the court will generally allow it.

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Article 9 of the Trial Rules of the People's Court of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall be held in public, and citizens may attend. When the attendance seats cannot meet the needs, the people's court may issue the attendance seats in the order of application or by drawing lots or shaking numbers, but priority shall be given to the close relatives of the parties or other interested parties to attend the case.