Chief justice:
Number of dishonest judicial officers declines (03/11/2003)
China's chief justice Xiao Yang said in Beijing Tuesday that the number
of judges and court officers who take the law and discipline in their
own hands has dropped steadily from 6.7 per thousand in 1998 to 2
per thousand over the past five years.
Presenting a report on the work of the Supreme People's Court to
the ongoing first session of the 10th National People's Congress,
President Xiao Yang of the Supreme People's Court attributed the
decline to the persistent efforts by the Supreme People's Court
to implement the withdrawal system and standardize the behavior
of judges and to the establishment of the system of investigating
and affixing responsibilities for law-violating trials.
He said that the Supreme People's Court has formulated a number
of rules and regulations concerning the punishment of judges and
other judicial officers for violating the law and discipline, with
emphasis put on those who abuse their judicial authority and law
enforcement power to seek personal gains, take bribes and bend the
law.
The Supreme People's Court is resolute in purging the ranks of
judges and judicial officers of corrupt elements, Xiao Stressed.
(xinhua)
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