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Quotas don’t add up
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SEVERAL grassroots courts in Shenzhen, in southern China’s Guangdong Province, stopped filing new cases from December 22 until the end of the year. Unaware of this, people still queued in the lobbies of the courts looking to get their cases accepted.
Why did the courts stop taking new cases? Because one standard to assess the courts’ performance is the ratio between cases filed and concluded each year. New cases not heard by December 31 would damage their figures.
Each case is different. While some can be straightforward, others can be very complicated. If our judges and courts have to be assessed by rigid statistics, justice will be elusive.
Police assessments are similarly based on the ratio between cases received and solved. Wrongly jailed or executed people are usually victims of efforts to meet such targets, especially in instances where police are ordered to solve all homicide cases.
Last month, an 18-year-old named Hugjiltu, who was executed after being convicted of murder and rape in 1996, was declared innocent by a court in Inner Mongolia, following a re-examination of the conviction. Police officers involved in Hugjiltu’s case were promoted following his original conviction and are now being investigated and indicted.
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