Quotable

"It is others who give (us judges) support and respect, but it is some judges themselves who cause humiliation."

Zhang Liyong, president of Henan High People's Court, commenting on claims that correcting a court's erroneous judgment "will damage judiciary authority". He said admitting and correcting a court's mistakes has proved not to erode its credibility, but in contrast gained the public's trust. Zhang visited, and bowed to, a wrongly jailed man in 2010 to apologize for an erroneous judgment.