Report: China to Start Holding Jury Trials

[Khephra]

Report: China to Start Holding Jury Trials




By Associated Press

December 20, 2004, 2:11 AM EST

BEIJING -- China will start holding jury trials next year as part of court reforms that also will increase the number of judges, state media reported Monday.

The measures were announced by China's highest court after a meeting last week on how to best prepare the courts to handle cases stemming from the country's sweeping economic changes, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Jurors are to be elected to five-year terms and must have at least two years of university education, the Xinhua report and other state media said. Under the current system, judges are the sole arbiters in court cases.

Elections are not unheard of in China. The communist government has used nonpartisan "village elections" in recent years to pick its lowest-level officials and members of local legislatures.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-china-jury-trials,0,8595.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[XNASA]

1. Where are they gonna find enough people to make this happen?

:shrug:

[Jack_DeLeon]

2. Well I'm sure out of thier 1 billion+ people...

that they can round up 12 every now and then.

[XNASA]

3. Oops.

I should have put an :eyes: after my post.

I forgot I wasn't in the Lounge.

[BayCityProgressive]

4. it is good to see them reforming

It has been interesting to watch China in the last year or so. They have made some surprising moves.

[knowbody0]

5. i agree

when hong kong freed itself i anticipated a different reaction, im impressed with the chinese