The judge who heard the case of disgraced politician Bo Xilai has been promoted to the country’s top court, mainland media have reported.
Wang Xuguang, deputy head of the Jinan Intermediate People’s Court in Shandong, will take up a position with the Supreme People’s Court, said magazine Legal Weekly.
He will be working with the second filing court.
Wang’s performance at the hearing of the Bo case has been widely praised by legal observers and he was considered to have maintained a balanced approach to the defendant and public prosecutors.
It was also the first time a local court used Weibo to provide public coverage of the hearing.
The move allowed the authorities to claim the highly sensitive case had been handled transparently.
