Lawyers' behavior should be regulated and their rights protected as China progresses with judicial reforms put forward in 2013, members of the legal profession said on Thursday.
Yang Fan, director of Chongqing Center for Technology Evaluation and Exchange, sat next to the presiding judge in the intellectual property tribunal of the city's Liangjiang New Area on July 10, to hear a software copyright lawsuit.
Judicial officials, including court presidents, are being encouraged to return to grassroots courts to hear cases - a move that seeks to make trials efficient and legal teams more professional, officials responsible for judicial reform said on Monday.
Zhou Qiang, top justice of the Supreme People's Court, made an inspection tour to Xin County, an old revolutionary base area in Central China's Henan Province, on July 10.
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) reopened one of the country's biggest insider trading cases on Wednessday after procurators protested lenient penalties handed out by lower courts.
A database for searching foreign laws is being developed along with a new rule under which foreigners can visit Chinese courts, the Supreme People's Court announced on Tuesday.
