小额诉讼程序繁简分流功能的制度阐析

Institutional analysis of the function of separating complex cases from simple cases and small claims procedure

繁简分流与小额诉讼程序具有共同的价值目标。前者以效率为主要导向,兼顾司法公正,核心为“简案简审”;后者以“速裁”为表现形式,重点追求效率。两者均以效率为主要导向,在“简案简审”理念上达成“共识”。可以说,小额诉讼程序具有天然的繁简分流功能。这种功能定位的制度明确程度如同繁简分流与小额诉讼程序的制度发展历程一般,表现出阶段性的变化特点,历经了“未被明确”“被间接明确”“被直接明确”三个过程。

The separation of complex cases from simple cases and small claims procedure have the same value goals.The former is mainly guided by efficiency,taking judicial fairness into account,and its core is“simple trials for simple cases”;the latter is manifested in the form of“speedy trial”and focuses on efficiency.Both are mainly guided by efficiency and have reached a“consensus”on the concept of“simple trials for simple cases”.It can be said that small claims procedure has a natural function of separating complex cases from simple cases.The degree of institutional clarity of this functional positioning is like the institutional development process of the separation of complex cases from simple cases and small claims procedure,showing the characteristics of phased changes,and has gone through three processes of“not being clarified”,“being indirectly clarified”and“being directly clarified”.