Research About The Role Definition Of Procuratorial Authority In Public Interest Litigation

The rapid development of economy and the improvement of living standard have made a more and more strong impact on social public interest which involves a large population with weak power to protect themselves from persecuting by the way of traditional legal proceedings. To better protect the public, many countries allow procuratorial authority to initiate a public prosecution which is very normal in foreign, especially relating to national or social public interest. In China, procuratorial authority is a legal supervision organ which plays the role of plaintiff in case. As the role definition and rights and obligations of procuratorial authority have no specific provision in law, it is hard to initiate prosecution. Therefore, it is helpful for the improvement of the system about public interest litigation to research this theme. This paper mainly includes three parts. The first part is briefly describes the concept and characteristics of public interest litigation.the second part is about the role and the subsistent question of procuratorial authority in public interest litigation in theory and practice; the third part is the analysis of role definition of procuratorial authority in public interest litigation from theory which will be proved by quoting some experiments of other countries; the forth part is the conceives of procuratorial authority in public interest litigation from role definition, rights and obligations.