Courts get oversight to avoid mistakes

Well over half of the administrative rulings protested by prosecutors were overturned last year, as procuratorates played a role in supervision, an official of China's top prosecuting body said on Tuesday.

Since May last year, when a revised Chinese Administrative Procedure Law took effect, prosecuting authorities have been asked to increase their efforts to point out and protest problematic verdicts or miscarriages in administrative cases, according to Xiao Wei, spokeswoman for the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Of the administrative cases protested by prosecutors, verdicts in 57.8 percent were overturned, and nearly 90 percent of alternatives suggested by prosecutors were accepted, Xiao said.