Judges told to take new view of green cases

Judges must change the way they handle environmental disputes, modernize their skill sets and stop favoring businesses over damaged ecology, according to an official at China's top court.

With environmental disputes increasing rapidly, the need for judges to adapt to revised laws, new case precedents and to understand their role in environmental protection has become more acute, the official said.

Wang Xuguang, deputy chief judge of the Environment and Ecology Tribunal under the Supreme People's Court, said that since last year there have been more than 230,000 environmental cases.