当事人权利与法官权力的均衡分配——兼论民事诉讼的本质

程序自由主义之局限要求在当事人与法院之间重新分配程序控制权。当事人自主与法官职权在程序控制中的动态均衡 ,决定了不同诉讼结构、模式及其功能的差异。本文以英国民事诉讼中法官的职权作为考察模型 ,通过分析英国法官在民事诉讼中职权的强化、构成及特点 ,阐明了有关对抗制诉讼及程序控制权的普遍性误认 ,并就法官职权强化意味着对抗制终结之主张提出质疑 ,揭示了二大诉讼模式自我修正、不断靠近的融合趋势 ,并初步论及民事诉讼的本质。

The Equilibrium Between the Rights of Litigant and the Powers of Judge--A Preliminarily Discussion on the Essence of Civil Procedure

Procedural Liberalism is more and more limited so as to require a new allocation of procedure control power between litigant and judge. The article argues to keep a dynamic equilibrium between the rights of litigant and the powers of judge in procedural progress on the basis of analysis the improvement, structure and characteristics of judge's powers in British civil procedure. The article reveals a trend for two procedural models to be mixed together each other, and discusses the essence of civil procedure preliminarily.