Beijing will send some of its judges abroad for mid-career training, in order to meet the challenges expected following China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to an official from the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court.
Beijing hopes to cultivate a team of professional judges to help Chinese judges work at the same level as their foreign counterparts, the official added.
Beijing also plans to train some judges who can use English for WTO-related cases. The court encourages the return of Chinese people who go abroad for further training at their own expense.
Meanwhile, Beijing judges are expected to receive systematic training in the near future, including learning from successful foreign experience, and temporarily working in other professional departments, to gain relevant knowledge required for conducting fair trials.
In connection with this, the court will invite veteran judges from at home and abroad to give lectures.
Beijing aims to cultivate several influential judges dealing with civil suits, criminal trials, intellectual property rights and administrative lawsuits over the next five years, according to the official.
(Xinhua 02/27/2001)
