Jiangmen Lawyers Association Holds 2026 Criminal Defense Training

On April 27, 2026, the Jiangmen Lawyers Association held a specialized criminal defense training for nearly a hundred young lawyers, focusing on first- and second-instance practice. Lawyer Huo Jun was among the keynote speakers.

To continuously enhance the professional criminal defense capabilities of the city's lawyers, standardize criminal defense practice, and strengthen risk-prevention awareness, a specialized criminal defense training hosted by the Jiangmen Lawyers Association was successfully held on the afternoon of April 27, 2026, in the conference room of the association's new office building.

Nearly one hundred young lawyers from across the city with fewer than five years of practice gathered together to focus on the full-process practical points of first- and second-instance proceedings, jointly learning skills, promoting standards, and safeguarding justice.

The training was chaired by Li Yingzi, Director of the association's Criminal Defense Professional Committee. Lawyer Zhong Chen and Lawyer Huo Jun, both Deputy Directors of the committee, served as keynote speakers. They analyzed practice, shared experience, and highlighted risks around the core stages of criminal defense, delivering content that was both practical and instructive, helping lawyers improve case quality and efficiency while holding to their professional bottom line.

Opening Remarks: Setting the Direction and Consolidating Responsibility

At the outset of the event, Director Li Yingzi delivered the opening remarks, introducing the background and objectives of the training. She emphasized the important role of criminal defense in safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of clients and promoting judicial fairness, and encouraged the participating lawyers to deepen their expertise, strictly observe professional standards, and handle every criminal case well with solid skills, thereby advancing the high-quality development of criminal defense work in Jiangmen.

Topic One: The Full Process of First-Instance Defense — Balancing Standards and Risk Control

Lawyer Zhong Chen, on the theme of key points and risk prevention for lawyers during the first-instance stage of criminal defense, systematically broke down the full-process practical operations of the first instance, drawing on real cases and hands-on experience:

Pre-trial preparation: clarifying meeting time limits, standardizing meeting records, thoroughly reviewing the case file to sort out evidentiary doubts, and precisely formulating the defense plan. Trial implementation: conducting cross-examination around the "three attributes" of evidence, building a rigorously logical courtroom debate system, and properly handling unexpected situations such as the defendant recanting in court. Post-trial closure: submitting written defense opinions on time, standardizing case-file archiving, and forming a complete professional record. Risk prevention: directly addressing the three major risks of procedural violations, substantive omissions, and professional ethics, providing full-process prevention strategies and reminding lawyers to hold to their professional red lines.

The lecture was packed with practical substance, guiding lawyers in standardized operation and risk prevention down to the details, and providing a clear "practical guide" for first-instance defense work.

Topic Two: Breaking Through in Second-Instance Defense — Refinement and Tool Empowerment

Lawyer Huo Jun shared his experience of lawyers' work during the second-instance stage of criminal defense, focusing on the difficulties and breakthrough paths of second-instance defense:

Precisely distilling defense arguments: taking the constitutive elements of a crime as the core, distinguishing between "argument" and "protection," and extending reasonable doubt across the three dimensions of time, space, and subject. Innovating defense presentation: using methods such as timeline analysis and evidence visualization to strengthen argumentative logic and persuasiveness. Empowering case work with technology: introducing efficient tools such as OCR software and AI legal assistants to help lawyers quickly extract case-file information and improve defense efficiency.

Drawing on practical cases, Lawyer Huo shared new ideas and methods for second-instance defense, helping lawyers break through the limits of conventional thinking and improve the success rate of second-instance defense.

Closing Remarks: Building Consensus and Promoting Development Together

At the close of the training, Zhao Jianke, Vice President of the association, delivered concluding remarks. He fully affirmed the professionalism and practicality of the training and expressed the hope that all lawyers would apply what they learned, putting their acquired skills into actual case work and continuously improving their criminal defense competence.

Participating lawyers expressed that the training was closely tied to practice and directly addressed pain points, both consolidating their professional foundation and clarifying risk boundaries, providing strong support for conducting criminal defense work in a standardized manner in the future.

This specialized criminal defense training was a practical initiative by the Criminal Defense Committee of the Jiangmen Lawyers Association to focus on lawyers' needs and empower professional growth. In the future, the committee will continue to build high-quality platforms for exchange and learning, regularly conduct activities such as practical training and experience sharing, and drive Jiangmen's criminal defense practice toward greater professionalism, standardization, and efficiency, contributing lawyers' strength to the building of a Jiangmen under the rule of law!

Source: Jiangmen Lawyers Association

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