Legal scholars and lawyers have been mourning the death of Xiao Yang, the former president of China’s Supreme People’s Court who is best remembered for his reforms on capital punishment and efforts to increase transparency within the judiciary.
Xiao initiated a series of reforms while head of the top court, the most significant being the restoration of its right of review cases where the sentence is capital punishment. He also openly slammed the decades-long tradition of holding trials in secret, effectively paving the way for public access to almost all courtrooms.
“Xiao Yang’s era allowed him more scope than in the current, Zhou Qiang, era,” he said, referring to the Supreme People’s Court incumbent president who worked under Xiao. Tian Feilong, a law professor at Beijing’s Beihang University, said that while most of the reforms initiated by Xiao more than a decade ago were still being implemented, their impact had been lessened by greater party controls on the judiciary.
Zhou has continued Xiao’s push for better educated judges, albeit while emphasising the need for them to show greater loyalty to the party.
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