人民陪审制的改革与完善——谈“混合制”人民陪审模式的建立

人民陪审制在我国是舶来品,其建立的基本理念主要有两个方面:一是实现人民参与国家政权的管理和司法民主;一是通过人民陪审员的参与,实现准确认定案件事实、适用法律的目的。我国目前人民陪审制的实际运行与以上两个理念存在一定的冲突,无法实现人民陪审制的功能。在审判方式改革日益深入的当今时代,英美国家的陪审制对人民陪审制的完善具有一定的借鉴意义。为此,我主张我国人民陪审制的改革在立足人民陪审员对法律适用具有一定的发言权的基础上,借鉴英美陪审制的合理因素,建立混合式的人民陪审制。

On the Reform of the People''''s Assessor System in China

China's people's assessor system is transplanted from that of lay judges in western countries.In logic,the system is based on two conceptual ideas: to enable citizens to participate in the state administration and achieve judicial democracy and to correctly find the fact and apply the relevant law by way of participation of the people's assessors.However,in practice,the existing system in China conflicts with the two ideas and fails to perform its function.This article maintains that we can gain some momentum to improve our people's assessor system by reference of common law jury trials.In this author's opinion,a lay judge system mixed with some elements of the jury institution may be most appropriate for us,in which a lay judge only has power to determine facts.