人民陪审员制度的司法民主价值、目标与进路

The values of Judicial Democracy,Objectives and Advancement of the people's assessor system

司法民主仍然是人民陪审员制度的核心价值和支撑,要更新形式民主观念,强调人民陪审员的独立思考、获得充分资讯和协商对话。人民陪审员制度要发挥司法功能,塑造司法的主体权威、过程权威、结果权威,提升社会对司法公正的认同感,形成司法领域的公共理性,最终实现提升司法公信力这一制度目标。人民陪审员实质性参与审理需要有效的配套保障机制,要细化法官指示和问题列表的内容,制作证据列表,提高法庭审理的对抗性,落实集中审理等庭审原则,建立人民陪审员的自由心证证明模式。

Judicial democracy remains core value and support for the people’s assessor system.It is necessary to update democracy concepts,and emphasize independent deliberations,adequate information and negotiation-mediate dialogues.This system should active its judicial functions,shape the subject’s authority,process authority and result authority of justice,improve social acknowledgement of judicial justice,form the public rationality of judicial field,and finally promote the improvement of judicial credibility.The people’s assessors substantively participate in trials in connection with security mechanism,and to this end we should specify the judge’s orders and the list of questions,work out the list of evidence,enhance court trials’conflicting nature,materialize the court-trial principle like centralized trial,and set up a discretional evaluation of evidence model for the people’s assessors.