Party Turns to a Failed Approach to Fixing Judicial System

(Beijing) – China's judicial system is set to restart a program to recruit judges from the ranks of lawyers and academics in a bid to boost capacity, but legal experts say it with have little appeal if authorities fail to deal with bureaucratic problems besetting the courts.

The Central Politics and Law Committee, the ruling Communist Party's top authority on domestic security and judicial matters, has drawn up a proposal laying out rules for courts to select established lawyers and legal academics to serve as judges.