司法改革视角下法院副卷公开研究

Research on Courts' Transcript Open to Public from Judicial Reform Perspective

中国法院卷宗有正副卷之分,其中副卷被定为司法机密而严格保密,禁止查阅。法院副卷的存在损害了当事人的知情权,易造成司法干预的"暗箱",也与现阶段司法公开的改革目标相背离。为了更好地保障当事人的利益,以公开促公正,应当尽快对法院副卷制度进行改革,将正、副卷合一,使违法批示等材料无所遁形。在副卷改革的过程中应当注意,以副卷内容公开为原则,不公开为例外,并通过设定特定的审判管理机制来保障副卷公开改革的推进。

Documents of judicial cases in China divided into original ones and transcripts,and the latter one is strictly classified as judicial confidential that not open to public.The existence of judicial transcripts has damaged the involved parties'rights to know the real situation and sometimes even resulted in illegal judicial intervention,deviate judiciary from the reform goal at the present stage.In order to better protect the interests of the involved parties and promote fairness and justice,courts’transcript reform should be carried out as soon as possible,and the original and transcripts document should be put together as one to avoid any possibilities of illegal documentation.It should be noted that the process of courts’transcript reform should be apply as general principle,and not open for the public only as an exception.Judging Administration should be set up to ensure courts’transcript reform.