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Xi promotes judicial reform,
IP tribunals
Updated: 2014-06-07 07:55
By Cao Yin (China Daily)
Judicial professionals said
they were glad to see
China's leadership is accelerating
judicial reform and putting some legal plans into practice.
China's
Leading Group for Overall Reform recently held its third meeting,
approving two documents on piloting reform of the judicial system,
including Shanghai's pilot program,
and a plan to set up special tribunals on intellectual property
rights.
President Xi Jinping
stressed that some basic work, such as the building of the IP
special courts and unification of personnel and property in local
courts and prosecutors below provincial level, should be pushed
forward.
Xi said the classified
management of judicial staff, the responsibility system in the
judicial field and the occupational protection of legal personnel
should be improved at the same time.
"The piloting reform must be
guided by the central government and developed under the top-level
policies," he said at the meeting, encouraging the pilot judicial
departments to do further work.
He added that the central
government will support and help the departments to overcome
difficulties, aiming to ensure that the reform can be enforced.
Yang Weidong, a law
professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance, spoke highly of
the meeting, saying it will accelerate the reforms approved by the
Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China in November.
"The approval of the
documents about piloting reform of the legal system means more
special measures will be enacted," Yang said. "The pace of the Shanghai's pilot program, I think, will be
much faster and greater, and may involve more judicial explorations.
"Shanghai,
as a metropolis with developed judicial ideas in China, should take more
responsibility for the reform," he said. "The plan to keep the
judicial jurisdiction system 'relatively separate' from the
administrative division will be enforced in the city's pilot
program, as well as some new and long-term judicial ideas."
Xi Huijia, an associate IP
professor at South China University of Technology, echoed Yang,
saying that building the IP special courts will be sped up after the
related plan was passed Friday.
"The approval for setting up
the IP tribunals shows the seriousness with which the central
government takes IP work and how much importance it attaches to its
protection," Xie added.
An IP judge from Foshan
Intermediate People's Court in
Guangdong
province said they have been hoping to make the dream of the special
court a reality, adding that the province has a large IP caseload
and great demand for setting up such tribunals.
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