The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, March 8, 2010 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/03/08/stanley-lubman-uncertainty-in-chinas-legal-development-part-2-reforming-the-courts/?KEYWORDS=lubman
Many foreign and some Chinese observers agree that the Chinese court system is deficient, most obviously because judges lack independence and the courts are subject to numerous external influences….The future of Chinese law reform is highly uncertain, and the odds of meaningful reform in the near term are low.