Raise pay to prevent judges leaving, say experts

The pay and working conditions of judges should be improved to reduce the number who are leaving the courts, according to experts and figures in the legal profession.

Since October 2013, when the central government pledged to press forward with judicial reforms, a number of judges have left their jobs, and others are preparing to leave. They say they are under too much pressure, and their salaries have been reduced.

"The key to the reforms is not decreasing the pay of judges and prosecutors," said Zhou Guangquan, a law professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University.