Shortage of Judges in China
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 10:32 — LD
China is experiencing a serious shortage of judges in some provinces, according to Legal Weekly reprinted by the official Xinhua on July 27, 2007. "In many courts in cities and prefectures such as Huahua and Xianxi in Hunan Province, we are over one-third short in judges," reported the article.
"As of the end of 2006, the number of judges in the court system of the Guangxi Autonomous Region decreased by 681 comparing to 1994, now with 1,342 vacancies. The vacancies in the Offices of Procuratorate are 1,073."[1]
"Only Two Passed"
"＇In our district, only two passed the exam in the past five years in the entire judicial system that includes public security bureau, the Office of Procuratorate and Bureau of Justice.＇ Sun Yi (pseudonym), the person in charge of the Registration Division in a district in Hengyang City was embarrassed and declined to be called ‘Chief Judge＇. He told the reporter that since he did not pass the exam and cannot be a judge, thus he was called the person in charge, not ‘Chief Judge.＇" "In 2005, the court had only two full time judges working on all matters of the three trial divisions - criminal, civil and administrative." At the minimum, a court must have three judges with a clerk to hold a trial.
Close to 300,000 people submitted their applications to take the exam before the close of online application deadline on June 20, 2007.[2] The exam will be held on September 15 and 16 2007. [3]
The first national judicial examination was held in 2002 with more than 360,000 participants. Over 24,000 got Certificate of the Legal Profession Qualifications.
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