Courts to improve services for ethnic litigants

People living in China's ethnic areas will next year benefit from legal services to help them file lawsuits in their local languages, an official with the top court has said.

Courts nationwide have been urged to improve services and ease the procedural burden on litigants, while the Supreme People's Court will add multilingual services in ethnic areas by the end of next year, including in the autonomous regions of Tibet, Xinjiang and Guangxi, said Jiang Qibo, a chief judge with the top court.

"In ethnic regions, it's difficult to set up legal service platforms in ethnic languages," he said. "We have contacted experts in the industry and the study will take much time, but it aims to ensure accuracy of the services.