" Huang said.

In a bid to improve the jury system, which is in its fifth year of reform, China will implement stricter juror selection rules and continue to diversify the jury pool,franklin et marshall, the country's senior court officials said.
Huang Zhendong,ralph lauren pas cher, chairman of the Internal and Judical Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, said attention should be paid to the number and quality of jurors.
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Officials say the jury reform has made strides, but imminent problems need to be solved,polo ralph lauren, juror pools being one.
About 54,000 people will be selected for a "pool" of juror candidates this month, in a process that has taken place every three years since 2005. After the retiring batch replaced, China will have roughly 80,000 jurors, taking part in criminal and civil cases at lower courts.
"We need jurors who can speak out for justice. And we need jurors of different ages,polo ralph lauren, ethnicities, and from different sectors, " Zhou Zemin, head of the political department of the Supreme People's Court,polo ralph lauren pas cher, told Xinhua at a judicial seminar in the southeastern Fujian Province over the weekend.
Critics say the jury pool should include more trusted and capable citizens who are not officials in the Party or the government.
China started to widen the use of jury trials five years ago. Under the current system, jurors can sit on a panel of three with professional judges and exercise almost equal power.
According to the Supreme People's Court, the number of jurors -- roughly 77,franklin and marshall,000 -- has risen to more than a half of the number of lower court judges. Jurors sit in on about 20 percent of cases in the lower courts.
Zhou gave no breakdowns by profession of the current jurors, but he said it was necessary to pick jurors from a wider pool that could represent different sectors of society.
"We need to raise the sense of responsibility of jurors and improve the system to appoint and remove jurors," Huang said.
The lower courts will announce the pool selection to the public and chosen candidates need to be approved by the local legislature.
Unlike their British and American counterparts who decide matters of fact only, Chinese jurors decide on both factual and legal issues. But in practice, inexperienced jurors commonly take a back seat and stay silent while professional judges arbitrate cases.
Officials say approved jurors will undergo comprehensive training after being selected. Among the courts in which jury trials are practiced, half have applied a random selection process to call on jurors to participate.
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