庭前会议实质庭审化批判

Critique of the Trial Tendency in Pre-trial Conference

庭前会议是为了更好发挥普通程序审理效果而设置的一项重要程序制度,但近年出台的系列司法解释将其适用范围不断拓宽,其处理事项的效力不断强化,从而致使当事人和辩护人的诉讼权利和实体权利在正式庭审中有丧失或被损害的可能。庭前会议产生的这种替代庭审或架空庭审的倾向与该制度设置的初衷相违背,也在一定程度上损害了以审判为中心的诉讼制度。应当弱化庭前会议中处理事项的约束力,充分保障当事人及辩护人在正式庭审中的权利,在诉讼机制繁简分流改革后真正凸显普通程序之繁,而不以单纯的效率价值追求替代司法正义。把庭前会议制度视为实现正义的手段而不是目的,确保其运行围绕正义实现而展开,是未来这一制度改革的方向。

Pre-trial conference is an important procedure set to promote the trial effect in ordinary cases.However, a series of judicial interpretations in recent years have broadened its range of application and entitled more legal effects, probably corroding litigious rights of the plaintiff and entity rights of the defendant in the formal trial. The trial tendency of pre-trial conferment, which substitutes or deprives the court trial, is contrary to its original intention and damages the trial-centered litigation system to some extent. The binding force of pre-trial conference should be weakened, so as to fully protect the rights of the plaintiff and the defendant in the formal trial, and truly spotlight the complexity of the ordinary procedure according to litigation reform, rather than pursuing simple efficiency. Pre-trial conference is a means to realize justice rather than the end, so justice is the goal of the institutional reform in the future.