Review And Perfection Of Criminal Witness Protection System In China

A great large part of the witnesses reject testifying in or out the court, give falsetestimony even repeatedly suffer from abuse constitute the major problems of years ofjudicial practice in China. The reason for this dilemma lies in several parts:legislativeloopholes, bureaucratic ethos,cultural tradition of Confucian etc. in which the mainpoint lays in the lack of an efficient criminal witness protection system. Suchdeficiency not only slows legal proceeding of criminal cases, but also obstructs deeperjudicial reform. Therefore, to create a scientific and energetic system of criminalwitness become our next significant step towards constitutionality which helpsintuitively in rights protection of witnesses as well as judicial justice, not to mentionits contribution in social harmony promotion. The creation mentioned can beconsidered also as a respond to international criminal justice trend and speaks for itsirreplaceable importance.In this essay, effort has been put firstly to the elaboration of the value of this finecriminal witness protection system, then to the inspection over current interrelatedlegislative and judicial status quo. By the method of comparative analysis, a attemptof conceiving a apposite witness protection system is finally made absorbingextraterritorial experiences both theoretical and practical.