'Too Rapid for All the Country' to Keep Pace Shanghai, June 10.
general review of the progress achieved by the Chinese Government in reforming the judicial system was given by Mr. Yang Peng, the newly-appointed President of the Third Branch of the Kiangsu Provincial High Court, in an_address at the Soochow University Law School. The Government, Mr. Yang. said, had spared no efforts in reforming the national Judicial system. The most up-to-date principles of jurisprudence had been adopted and Incorporated in the national. codes. Owing to the extreme rapidity with which the reforms had been "instituted, however, it had not been Possible to keep ' the same pace in all parts of the country.
For. example, side by side with modern courts, there were still many districts where the District Magistrates weredelegated with concurrent Judlelal powers. These magistrates often were not well versed in law, so their decisions sometimes were arbitrary and not based strictly on Jaw. In order to rectify this situa tion, the Judicial Yuan had decided to establish District Judicial Bureaux districts where no regular courts were established and competent Judges would be appointed to deal with litigation in these districts.
Mr, Yang deplored the fact that the salaries of the judges in remote Provinces and outlying regions still were altogether too low. Though the judges in these districts did not complain and were discharging their duties faithfully and with competence, the Government should, however, increase their remuneration as {gr 'a8 possible in conformity with the resolution adopted by the National Judicial Conference last year. Kuo Min, the smuggling situation in North China, "He however, declined to advance his opinion on how Japan could solving this a political question.
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