China's First New Justices Appointed

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China's First New Justices Appointed

Forty-one judges were appointed Thursday as China's first group of "justices" by President of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Chief Justice Xiao Yang.

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Forty-one judges were appointed Thursday as China's first group of "justices" by President of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Chief Justice Xiao Yang.

The appointment, based on the revised law on judges that took effect January 1, 2002, is intended to bring appointment of judges in line with internationally accepted practices, Xiao said at a ceremony to award the "certificates of justice."

The new justices are vice-presidents of the SPC, members of the SPC Judicial Committee and presidents of provincial-level Higher People's Courts.

Under the law on judges, China's judges fall into four tiers: chief justice, justice, senior judge and judge. The president of the SPC is chief justice by law.

According to the SPC sources, 30,000 senior judges have been appointed and 180,000 judges have been created.

Xinhua also learned that the Supreme People's Procuratorate ( SPP) named 41 prosecutors as principal public procurators Thursday.

Han Zhubin, procurator-general of the SPP and procurator-in- chief, awarded the certificates of principal public procurators to them.

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