Taiwan residents get mainland legal certificates
26/11/2008 15:54
Taiwan residents will be allowed to enter the legal profession on the
mainland, with more than 30 having passed the annual judicial exam, a mainland
official said in Beijing today.
Fan Liqing, spokeswoman of the State Council
Taiwan Affairs Office, said relevant departments were discussing necessary
regulations, which would be "released at an appropriate time."
For years, law
professionals from Taiwan have urged the mainland to open its judicial exams to
Taiwan residents out of the need for closer cross-Strait economic and social
exchanges.
The Ministry of Justice announced in April that Taiwan residents
could sit the exam starting this year. A total of 658 Taiwan residents took the
September exam, along with about 370,000 participants from the mainland.
Last
year, about 294,000 people took the exam nationwide but only 22 percent
passed.
The annual National Judicial exam, held in September, started in
2002. It was organized by the National Judicial Examination Center under the
Ministry of Justice.
Xinhua
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