异地审理、司法独立性与法官裁决——基于广东省江门市司法制度改革的实证研究

Off-Site Trial, Judicial Independence and Judges’ Verdicts——Empirical Research Based on the Judicial System Reform of Jiangmen, Guangdong Province

本文使用法院判决书的信息构建微观数据集,首次对广东省江门市的行政案件异地审理司法制度改革的效果进行了实证评估。研究发现,异地审理改革提高了江门市一审行政案件中原告胜诉的可能性,这意味着,异地审理改革在一定程度上起到了防止行政干预司法、削弱司法地方保护主义的作用;且该影响更主要地体现在以乡镇级政府单位作为被告的案件中。同时,本文还发现,异地审理改革降低了江门市一审行政案件的审判效率。

Constructing micro datasets with the court documents,we evaluate the effects of the off-site trial reform of administrative cases in Jiangmen,Guangdong Province,for the first time.We find that the reform has increased the probability of winning for plaintiffs in administrative cases of first instance,and the impact is stronger for cases with village or township level government units as defendants,which implies that the reform in Jiangmen has been effective in preventing administrative intervention in the judicial system and mitigating judicial local protectionism.However,the reform has decreased trial efficiency of administrative cases at the same time.