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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 News Agency March 11, 2003)
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