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The article reports on the efforts of the city governments of Chungking, Beijing and Shanghai in China to deal with the ethical problems associated with the practices of lawyers and judges. The Chungking Department of Justice has decided to enforce administrative penalties on seven lawyers who were convicted of different offenses, and has adopted a system of public notice in which information about lawyers and law firms having disciplinary sanctions and penalties will be published on the internet. Meanwhile, a lawyer named Liu in Beijing has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for receiving and giving bribes. Moreover, the Shanghai government has launched the one party withdrawal scheme calling judicial officers whose spouses were lawyers to withdraw from their positions.