If suing the food, industry and commerce, and health departments still counted as an ordinary administrative lawsuit,
then the administrative review authority already fell under local administrative jurisdiction.
This time, four departments and a third-party supermarket had all been sued together.
Five defendants in total!
Honestly... this situation was relatively rare even among civil and administrative cases.
It could even be called explosive.
After all... who sued five parties at once?
Wasn't that downright outrageous?
Filing the lawsuit was relatively straightforward. The court of first instance had been Jinshi Southern District Basic Court.
To initiate the second instance, they only needed to submit the relevant Litigation Materials to Jinshi Intermediate Court.
However, this case involved a relatively large number of issues.
Moreover, in civil cases, parties generally needed to gather the relevant evidence and leads themselves.
That was because ordinary civil litigation followed the principle that whoever made a claim bore the burden of proof.
If the plaintiff filed an appeal, the plaintiff had to produce relevant evidence to bring charges against the defendants.
The defendants would be judged based on that evidence.
Xiao Pingjun had kept fairly complete evidence.
Moreover, the families of several other children who had suffered food poisoning had also retained their original purchase receipts and the relevant hospital documentation.
These could prove that the food poisoning had been caused by expired food purchased at the supermarket.
There were not many problems with the evidence in this case.
The reason they had lost at first instance
was that the main claims and the starting point of the lawsuit filed by Xiao Pingjun's lawyer at the time had been wrong.
That had ultimately led to their defeat.
The current circumstances and evidence were much more substantial than at first instance.
So, at second instance,
as long