By Inexe Connauy Kun, Chicago, IL, May, 1926.
Dr. Yung Li-yao, government st dent for China, who recently of law from Chicago University and is at present studying the American common law system, recently lauded the United States judicial independence and equity plan.
Two lessons which Chinese courts can loam from United States courts are the value of judicial independence as bas: d upon tenure of office and the value of the equity system of enlisting the aid of experts to their opinions on questions of and accepting these as advie sory. rather than binding opinions, Dr, Yao said recently, trouble with the judicial od-ministration of China is not with the law or with the judicial bodies proper but rather with the enforcing bodies of the executive branch of the government," he said. "These are dependent upon the "political stability which in turn is determined by foreign relationships and econo-mie conditions, largely'at the merey of foreign powers, "The courts themselves," he cons tinued, "are undergoing ' constant modification. At present they are vided into local courts of first. in" stance, provincial courts of appel-jate jurisdiction and the supreme wart, All have both criminal and jurisdiction. There is no jury atom similar to the equity court system prevailing, All eases involving the government are tried separate courts, "The choice of a jury trial or the waiver of that trial is one of the excellences of the American system rights and gives a possible means sible Lee in! aid Des Yao, tat ype, Att, Ho has done Newspapers was during the war when tually encounter astonishes, end tory acer the returned: Busnaparte, 0° "expediting "No" selah ov une, he Was arrested on a charge of mak- impresses them.
They suddenly after his exile to man devoting his talents to business exclusively can fail to, at least think after veading the! volume, and, after all, if @ man stops to think there ly yet hope, Mr. Bok's idea that the greatest word in our beautiful English language, and we must agree with him, 18 "service"—not the service that' serves Self, for like lip-service, that accomplishes! naught, But service in the true and! intended meaning of the word—the service that labours for the interest of others, that confer an advantage, that benefits, that avails. Then we ive the greatest, highest and most! directly profitable service to our-
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