Supreme judicial organ

The supreme judicial organ (SJO), is the highest and most powerful judicial organ in a communist state and supervises all lower-level judicial organs. Unlike the judicial branches in liberal democracies, which serve as a check on state power, SJOs focus strictly on adjudication. Communist states reject judicial independence in favor of treating the judiciary as a political organ. The SJO is directly accountable through democratic centralist procedures to the supreme state organ of power (SSOP) as the holder of unified state power. The SJO is delegated its powers by the SSOP per the principle of division of labour of state organs. It remains directly accountable to the SSOP for its work as the head of the nation's unified system of judicial organs.