摘要
2003年春，经媒体披露，因未携带身份证件而含冤死在收容遣送所的大学生孙志刚的悲惨遭遇激发了公众积蓄已久的对收容遣送制度的强烈不满和愤怒，“三博士”和“五学者”先後上书之後，国务院废止实施了21年的《收容遣送办法》代之以新的《救助管理办法入由于通过民情民意和社会舆论有效实现了促进政府和立法者审视、检讨和废止既有法规的目的，在很大程度上，“孙志刚案件”开启了以个案影响法治的影响性诉讼的先河。
In the spring of 2003, the college student Sun Zhigang died in the detention and repatriation center because he forgot to carry proof of identification with him. Exposed by the media, the tragedy provoked anger and backlash in the general public against the institution of accommodating and sending back the homeless. When three doctors and five scholars made proposals concerning the case to the government in close succession, the State Council scraped the Method of Accommodating and Sending Back the Homeless, which had been in force for 21 years, and replaced it with the Method and Management of Relief. In this case, the will of people and the public opinion have made the government and legislators to investigate, review and abolish existing laws. In this sense, the case of Sun Zhigang set a precedent for impact litigation, in which an individual case has a bearing on the rule of law.
