Courts urged to make use of new media

China's top court asked each court to make full use of new media platforms, including micro blogs, to update trial information in a timely manner and improve judicial transparency. However, legal experts and operators of court micro blogs said guidelines are needed to make such platforms work better.

Chinese courts should all pay attention to public opinion and are required to release trial information via newspapers, television and social media such as micro blogs and WeChat, a popular messaging app, said Supreme People's Court top judge Zhou Qiang.

Courts should improve judicial credibility and reply to the public by making legal work transparent, Zhou added.