Legal analysis: collegiate system. Collegiate system is a system of collective trial, that is, the trial of a case is conducted by a collegiate bench composed of several judges. Collegiate system is the basic organizational form for people's courts to hear cases.

Legal basis: Article 183 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). When trying a case of first instance, the basic people's court and the intermediate people's court shall be composed of three judges or a collegiate bench composed of three or more judges and seven or less people's jurors. However, a case in which a summary procedure or a summary procedure is applied in a basic people's court may be tried by a single judge. When trying a case of first instance, the Higher People's Court shall consist of three to seven judges or three to seven judges and people's jurors. The Supreme People's Court tried cases of first instance by a collegial panel of three to seven judges. When trying cases of appeal and protest, the people's court shall be composed of three or five judges. The number of members of the collegial panel shall be odd.