This brand of judicial action by priority, that is, criminal over civil, is very much at odds with the comprehensive and consistent application of law required if a vibrant economic sector is to be supported. The most fundamental of these interrelated problems affecting the court system and enforcement of judgments include the lack of financial resources, local protectionism, the limited educational qualifications of judges, and the network of personal connections characterising the official sphere (Guanxi). These factors limit the reach of the domestic legal system. Little reverence is paid to a legal system which is both a functionary of the Party, and intermittent in its dispensation of justice.