程序法与实体法关系考辨——兼论程序优先理论

Research on Relationship between Procedural Law and Substantial Law ——With the Demonstration of the “Procedure-precedence” Theory

程序法与实体法的关系可以从两个方面来理解 :一方面 ,程序法对实体法的实施起着保障作用。这是程序法对于实体法的工具性价值。但是 ,不容忽视的是 ,另一方面程序法相对于实体法也具有某种独立性 ,程序法同时也具有自身的独立性价值。由于实体公正的不确定性以及程序公正的相对确定性 ,在程序公正与实体公正发生冲突的情况下 ,应当坚持程序公正优先。

The connotation of the relationship between the procedural law and the substantial law can be divided into two parts: For one side, the procedural law ensures the enforcement of the substantial law, as the implemental value. However, what can't be neglected is that: the procedural law is independent of the substantial law with its own value. And also, because of the certainty of the procedural justice and the uncertainty of the substantial justice,when there is a conflict between them, we should hold the former one as the first.