The Study On The Criminal Offence Of Judicial Officials In Song Dynasty

Firstly the judicial officials often had criminal offence through their powers is a great matter of law system. So, the ruler of Song Dynasty defined the officials duties in the judicial action, made perfect and strict institution of duty, whic involved each process from receiving the plaint to sentence to finishing the case. In them, the main duties showed fully the greatest lawful achievement and unique style in Song Dynasty.Secondly, the judicial official violating the law through their powers is also a important matter of government' s managements. So, the rulers of Song Dynasty also established all kinds of defensive methods to prevent the officials from abusing their authority for their own private benefits, which include: paying importance to law ests in order to develop the official' s vocational quality and intensifying the education of their thoughts and virtues to improve the officials' moral quality and perfecting the mechanism of restriction or supervision against abusing judicial organ.. The methods of being on guard from outer to inner and from face to essence for the judicial officials gained great effects in Song Dynasty.However, in spite of the upward methods, there were a great deal of phenomenon of breaking the law in the officials' judicial procedure. The main reasons were the malpractice of many laws and incompetent officials in Song Dynasty. Nevertheless, the whole feudal society cannot root such phenomenon. It was the same as Song Dynasty.