Strengthening Judicial Ethics in China—The New Principles and Regulation: Correspondent's Report from China

Abstract

On 6 December 2010, the Supreme People's Court of China promulgated a revised version of the Basic Principles of the Professional Ethics of Judges, together with a similar revised version of the Regulation on Judicial Behaviour. These superseded the old versions of 18 October 2001 and 4 November 2005 respectively.