A Study On The Reform Of Pretrial Procedures

Whether pretrial procedures are reasonable and plenary affects justice and efficiency in civil litigation, and pretrial procedures have increasingly become an important procedure and developing trend in civil procedures as the emphasis on court trial shifting to both trial procedures and pretrial procedures. However, pretrial procedures have long been neglected or even ignored by legislation, judicature and legal study in our country, and this is one of the main reasons why the reform of our civil judicature can not go out of plight. This article provides constructive opinions about the issue by comparative research on pretrial procedures of Anglo-American law system and civil law country, reviewing the pretrial procedures of our country, analyzing the values, functions and models of the pretrial procedures, and the author wish this kind of pretrial procedures can be agreed and accepted by judges, lawyers, clients and other populace in our country.