Pilot progams aim to curb interference with courts
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CHINA has adopted pilot programs for circuit courts and courts with jurisdiction across different regions designed to reduce local officials’ interference in the system.
Legal reforms are a key platform for the central government to boost the public faith in the Communist Party and the judicial system amid simmering discontent over miscarriages of justice often caused by officials’ abuse of power.
The Party had flagged the decision to establish circuit courts and courts that would span administrative regions at a meeting in October.
Exploring administrative divisions that would go across the courts and the prosecutors would “help eliminate interference in judicial and procuratorial work to ensure that the courts and prosecutors are independent and impartial,” Xinhua news agency said yesterday, at the conclusion of the seventh meeting of the Leading Group for Overall Reform, chaired by President Xi Jinping.
The circuit courts would help parties “settle disputes on the spot and make it convenient for them,” Xinhua reported. It did not say when the pilot programs would be launched.
In June, China said provincial governments would pick judges and prosecutors and fix the budgets of local courts and procuratorates. The system currently gives local governments greater sway in appointments.
Since he took office in March 2013, Xi has called for judicial independence under the Party.
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