Workload for judges addressed

Shanghai calculates proper number of cases and assistants required

Shanghai has calculated how many cases a judge can handle per year to find a solution to the ongoing problem with judges' workloads, the city's top judge said on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions.

"After measuring the effective working hours and the average time spent on every case by the more than 1,000 judges in Shanghai last year, we found that the number of cases handled by a judge should be 134 a year," Cui Yadong, president of the Shanghai High People's Court, said in an exclusive interview with China Daily.