The Achievements and Prospects of Court Reforms in China

Abstract

Judicial reform has become an important issue of Chinese people. At the end of 2004, “The Preliminary Comment on the Judicial System and Working Mechanism form the Central Leading ‘Group of Judicial System Reform’” is conferred by the central group of judicial reform. This paper analyses the achievements China has made in the last five years, especially in the area of court reform, judge reform, evidence reform, judge reform. Beyond this, this paper also expounds the prospect of China’s judicial reform in improving the judicial independence, the judge quality, the court organization reforms and the reforms in evidence system.