The Review of the People's Assessor System and The Prospect of its Institution——The Perspective on the Whole-process People's Democracy
At present,the people's assessor system in China is still in the dualistic mode of"equal power in the same position"and"different power in the different position".The future development direction would be a complete transition from the mode of"equal power in the same position"to the mode of"different power in the different position".Whole-process people's democracy is the foundation of the people's assessor system in China.The expression of legal opinions by jurors is conducive to the supervision of judicial impartiality,the promotion of reasoning by judges and the realization of judicial democracy.In order to better practise the whole-process people's democracy in the people's assessor system,the subsequent reform,while following the direction of separating of duties and powers,should not completely eliminate the participation of people's jurors in the application of law,but retain the right of people's jurors to express legal opinions.Specifically,the criteria for jurors to participate in court trials should be clarified,the quality of jurors'participation should be improved with the necessary judge's instructions,and the opinions of jurors should be consistently reflected in the judgement.
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