On Protection Of The Vulnerable Groups In Civil Proceedings

The protection of vulnerable groups in civil proceedings, is an important element of human rights issues. Along with the expansion of the gap between the rich and the poor, social stratification visible increase and intensified conflicts between different interest groups, the vulnerable groups are growing concerns. Laid-off workers, the disabled, the elderly, women and children and farmers, and so on, all belong to these group areas. Workers, employees, consumers and others of vulnerable status in the proceedings who make this team be growing trend. How to strengthen the protection of vulnerable groups, in order to make the interests of the various strata of society develop harmoniously and balanced, and promote the development of society, what has became a pressing issue. The article enters from the civil proceedings angle of view, investigates the questions of the protection of vulnerable groups. The seventies last century, the western countries had launched a series of movements, 'close to justice', which about the protection from the poor to the diffusible interests and the establishment of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. It had set a good example for our country. It is practical to strengthen the protection of vulnerable groups in civil proceedings when we truly understand the meaning of equality. Only on the basis of pursuing the substantive equality, we are possible to protect the interests of vulnerable groups. At present, we possess many favorable conditions to protect the rights of vulnerable groups in the civil proceedings, but there are still a lot of deficiencies. The article starts from the necessity of establishing systems that protect vulnerable groups rights in the civil procedure law, analyzes three aspects that our 'people-oriented' spirit of modern legislation, showing forth for real justice and expressing of real equality. Then it discusses the questions that the protection of vulnerable groups rights have faced at present and the tendency of legal development, what are expected to cause the people close attention to the protective conation of vulnerable groups, so as to improve it hardy. Finally the article analyses the affections caused by the lawsuit model transform, and gives the improvement comments to the civil procedure law from microscopic angle which specifically includes the region jurisdiction system, the litigant system, the evidence system, the programming and so on, In order to gradually improve the present condition of protection for the vulnerable groups in the civil proceedings.