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| | Naumann Foundation Study: China's Legal System Lacks Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Actually, China is in desperate need of trained lawyers and judges -- and a legal system that protects civil and property rights -- according to one of the few field studies by western researchers. |
 | | Researchers for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, based in Germany, conducted field surveys in 1994 and 1995, interviewing farmers, businessmen, lawyers and judges in two provinces of China to assess the legal system. |
 | | They found bribery is widespread, with 72 percent of businessmen and citizens surveyed in the field saying they bribe officials, and judges are frequently corrupt, since they must raise their own revenue. |
| www.ncpa.org /pi/internat/pdinter/july98a.html (376 words) |
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