Minister of Justice Zhang Fusen was commissioned by the State Council, the draft amendment to the lawyers law made a statement. According to reports, in June of this year, the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress amended the Judges Law and the Prosecutors Law. The amended Judges Law and Procurators Law established a system of unified judicial examinations for first-time judges, prosecutors and applicants qualified as lawyers. The introduction of the unified judicial examination requires that those taking the examination have uniform academic qualifications. However, the current lawyers' law provides for inconsistencies between the academic qualifications of applicants and those provided for in the amended judges' law and prosecutors' law. This problem, if not solved legally, will inevitably affect the first national unified judicial examination held in 2002.
The draft amendment to the Law on Lawyers stipulates that the state shall implement a unified judicial examination system for the qualification of lawyers and for initial judges and prosecutors. With higher education institutions of law with undergraduate education, or higher education institutions of other professional undergraduate education with legal expertise, through the national judicial examination to obtain qualifications, apply for practice, by the State Council judicial administrative department to issue lawyers practicing certificate. "The application of the preceding paragraph of the academic conditions of the places where there are difficulties, the judicial administrative department of the state council to examine and determine, within a certain period of time, can be engaged in the profession of lawyers, the academic conditions can be relaxed to the higher education institutions of law specializing in specialist degrees.