法律方法的司法价值——从法官的自由裁量权说起

On the Judicial Value of Legal Means

司法领域出现的"类似案件不同判决"现象,涉及到疑难案件中法官的自由裁量权如何行使的问题。从法律方法的视角观察,法律推理和法律解释为法官提供了思考和解决疑难案件的框架,但决定性环节仍需法官运用自己的价值判断。从根本上说,法律方法的运用,能够使裁判的获得成为一种民主公开的过程,一种分析说理的过程,从而也是司法公正的实现过程。法律方法虽然不能保证法官得到唯一正确的答案,却能大大提高裁判的可接受性和说服力,这是法律方法在司法领域的最大价值。

The phenomenon of ＂different sentences to similar cases＂ in judicial area concerns the exercise of judges＇discretionary power in knotty cases. From the perspective of legal means, both legal deduction and legal interpretation provide an outline for the judges to think about and solve knotty cases. For the decisive point, judges need to judge by themselves. The employment of legal means makes the acquisition of sentence a process of democracy and openness, a process of analyzing and reasoning and a process of fulfilling judicial justice. Legal means can not ensure judges the only correct answer but can greatly enhance the acceptability and persuasiveness of the judgment, which is the utmost value of legal means in judicial area.