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independent judiciary, the environment courts will continue to avoid handling sensitive cases, said Zhang Jingjing, a lawyer involved in many pollution causes.
"Our circle of lawyers has a saying: in China, the big cases are about politics, the mid-sized cases are about influence and only the small cases deal with law," Zhang said. ($1 = 6.3066 Chinese yuan) (Additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom and Royston Chan, Editing by Ken Wills and Ron Popeski)
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