对人民陪审员制度的冷思考

陪审制度起源于英国,完善在美国,清末传入我国,新中国的两次民事立法都予以认可。但陪审制在实践中却屡遭冷遇,现今的人民陪审员制更是受到众多批评。2004年8月全国人大进一步完善了人民陪审员制度,并在很多方面解决了长期以来影响人民陪审制发展和适用的问题,但还存在着一些不足之处:即人民陪审员的准入门槛太低;审判中专业技术问题无法解决;司法成本的增加,浪费已有的司法资源;陪审员的任职年限规定模糊以及陪审员的执法活动缺乏监督等几个方面的问题。

On People's Jury System

Jury system was started in Britain,perfected in the U.S.A.,and introduced into China in Qing Dynasty,and was conformed in two civil legislations after the foundation of the P.R.C.However,jury system has not been paid enough attention in practice,and nowadays people's jury system is widely criticised.In August,2004,the People's Congress improved people's jury greatly and solved several problems about it,but there are still some disadvantages,including: the requirements of jurors,solving of technological problems in the judicial procedure,increasing of judicial costs,etc.