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Can rail crash victims in China resort to lawsuits and legal action to claim damages?  
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Jul 31 2011 (11:16)
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Can rail crash victims in China resort to lawsuits and legal action to claim damages?

Jul 31 2011 (10:43)
News Entry# 32142  China lawyers 'told not to take rail crash cases'  
Posted by: Rang De Basanti^   Added by: moderator^~  Jul 31 2011 (11:16)
Legal authorities in China ordered lawyers not to take on cases from the families of victims of last weekend's fatal train crash, it emerged on Saturday, as judicial officials apologised for the move. Three days after the crash near Wenzhou in eastern China, law firms in the city received an "urgent statement" in the names of the Wenzhou Judicial Bureau and the Wenzhou Lawyers' Association, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The statement said lawyers should report to the two organisations "immediately after the injured passengers and families of the deceased in the accident come for legal help," the agency reported. Xinhua said the statement also told lawyers not to "unauthorisedly respond and handle the cases," because "the accident is a major sensitive issue concerning social stability". Forty people were killed when two high-speed trains collided last Saturday on the outskirts of Wenzhou, the worst accident yet to hit...
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China's rapidly expanding high-speed network. There has been widespread criticism of the government's handling of the accident and its aftermath in Chinese media and online, and the instructions to lawyers prompted an angry response when they were publicised by web users. "The judicial authorities and the lawyers' association in Wenzhou have banned lawyers from taking victims' cases. Who are they working for? I'm having doubts about the independence of Chinese justice," wrote one web user, Dianfuzishangwudeguairen, on the Sina microblog service. The Wenzhou Judicial Bureau apologised for the statement, which it said the lawyers' group had issued without its approval. "We didn't know the content of the statement before it was released. It was written by the lawyers' association, which used our name without authorisation," Liu Xianping, director of the bureau's office, said in remarks quoted by Xinhua. A Wenzhou Lawyers' Association spokesman confirmed this version of events, Xinhua said, adding they issued the order because they feared "conflicts would be generated if legal services are not well-provided". Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has ordered an "open and transparent" probe into the crash and said those responsible would be "severely punished".
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