Court Meeting System

Highlighting the criminal proceedings in China, the pretrial conferenceis one of theprogresses of law on criminal litigation proceeding. It has self-evident significance onthe improvement of the litigation efficiency and quality and plays an important role inprocedural justice and balance between accuser and defense.The pretrial conference has a short history in China; therefore, there has quite a lotof problems in its operation, such as the ambiguity of the application scope, theshortcomings of content and the specific operation procedure.The thesis is divided into six parts. The first part is a summary of the pretrialconference with the explanation, introduction of this kind of system in other countriesand the distinguishing from the similar procedures.The second part discusses its significance and function mainly from the aspects ofprocedural justice, efficiency improvement and balance between accuser and defense.The author elaborates its application problems in the real operation mainly from theaspect of application scope, initiation method and participants involved.The forth part mainly analyses the contents of pretrial conference from two aspects,namely procedures and equity.In part five, the author specially discusses the exclusionary rules.