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China's Supreme Court Launches Public Poll on "Top Ten" Judges

Posted on: Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 09:00 CST

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Beijing, 27 December: The Supreme People's Court of China launched a public polling campaign for the nation's top ten judges in 2005 on Tuesday [27 December].

The campaign is co-sponsored by the Supreme Court, China Central Television (CCTV) and other two nation-wide newspapers, which will broadcast and publish stories of 33 candidate judges.

The Supreme Court has recognized the candidate judges recommended by each provincial High Court, as well as the branch court in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and the court-martial.

Audiences can submit their votes in paper form, online and Short- Message-Service (SMS) by mobile devices.

Li Ke, a senior official of the Supreme Court said that the public polling of China's top ten judges is way to build up judge's images among the people and enhance the public reputation of the judiciary.

The votes will be collected and calculated by the National Bureau of Statistics and the top ten judges will be awarded a "Golden Mallet". The winners will be announced in February 2006, according to the Supreme Court.

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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