Research On Judicial Openness And Judicial Credibility

As one of the ways to settle disputes, judicial is based on the public trust in it. Theconstruction of the judicial credibility is a long-term and systematic project, whichcannot achieve overnight. In modern society, judicial credibility comes from the socialpublic’s inherent recognition and trust, rather than the power of deterrence. The premiseof judicial credibility is that the judicature can be perceived and understood by thesocial public, which depends on judicial openness. Open justice is to set the justice inthe sun and accordingly the process and results of judicial stand the test, deliberationand evaluation. That promoting fairness by opening and facilitating public credibility byfairness will come true. Judicial openness is an attitude, a power, a kind ofself-confidence. It helps to strengthen the supervision of judicial adjudication, andenhances the public trust in the judicature. To develop the judicial openness systemmakes contribution to the realization of public’s Rights to be informed, be heard, and tooversee. That makes the public understand the real situation of Justice, and experiencethe reality of Justice, so as to enhance judicial credibility. Judicial openness is asignificant means to curb judicial corruption, safeguard judicial justice, to enhance thepublic credibility of the judiciary. Judicial openness is becoming more and morestrongly expected by people with their awareness of rights and the concept ofdemocracy and rule of law. The public expectations of judicial credibility, even ofanything about judicial, are start with the requirements of transparentness and openness.Judicial openness gets unprecedented attention, showing a good momentum ofdevelopment. It has been accumulating valuable experience and exposed some problemsat the same time.This paper discusses the relationship between openness and public credibility of thejudiciary, make it clear that the significance of judicial openness to the judicialcredibility construction. It sums up some issues existing in the current judicial opennessthrough analyzing the current situation of China’s judicial openness and judicialcredibility. Then it puts forward the ways to construct and improve, and the judicialopenness outlook for the future. There are four parts in this paper. The main contents areas follows: The first part clears the basic connotation and value of judicial credibility, the truemeaning and basic range of judicial openness, expounds the relationship betweenopenness and public credibility of the judiciary, analyzes the significance of judicialopenness to the improvement of judicial credibility.The second part analyzes the important achievements and the existing problems ofChina in judicial openness area. Then present situation of judicial credibility areanalyzed in two ways.The third part puts forward five suggestions on improving the judicial openness system,in order to enhance judicial credibility. They are the standardization of judicial openness,the full coverage of the open content, the diversification of open forms, the differentialof judicial openness, perfect the public participation. The specific ways to improve areput forward from these four aspects.