法国民事司法改革论纲

法国现代司法危机最明显特征是程序缓慢,追求效率是司法改革的首要目标。为寻求司法效率提高,除在诉讼程序内部实现流程的简化之外,同时在程序内外推广替代纠纷解决机制的应用。法国司法由此呈现多元化特征,即在“黑白分明”的传统审判特征之外寻求灰色地带的特殊正义。同时,亲民司法理念颠覆了司法高高在上、与世隔绝的冷漠形象,确立现代司法亲近于民的新形象,重建民众对司法的信任。2008年法国司法改革报告在上述司法改革措施的基础上,综合提出新理念,即和谐司法,作为法国现代司法改革的新主轴,旨在将当事人置于司法体系中心,强调司法为公众服务,推崇司法的可读性、便利性、可预见性。

Civil Judicial Reform in France

Procedural tardiness is the most obvious characteristic of the modern French judicial crisis. Delayed Justice is not really Justice, judicial efficiency is the primary goal of judicial reform. For greater efficiency, in addition to the procedural simplification, ADR is applied to resolve disputes and it makes the diversification of justice. Different with the "black and white" in the traditional Trial, ADR seek special justice of the gray areas. By destroying the traditional image of the justice-always standing in a high and isolated position, the proximity of justice establishes a new image closing to the people and rebuilds public trust to the justice. On the basis of the previous measures, the French judicial report in 2008 proposes a new concept, that the appeasement of justice, as the new direction for the modern judicial reform, to put the parties in the center of the judicial system, stress that the justice serves the public, respect judicial readability, convenience and predictability.