The common characteristic of criminal summary procedure in a narrow sense is the exemption or substantial reduction of courtroom investigation procedure.
The criminal courtroom investigation is litigious activities that aim at ascertaining the facts of evidence and the case though judicial acts like allegations, questions, evidence presentations, and cross-examinations at court under the court's conductor, with the participation of the parties and other subjects.
The basis of possibility ofsimplification of the structure of criminal procedure lies in that several procedures setting for fact investigation can be omitted when the facts of a case are clear and the evidence is reliable, but it is mainly the simplification of courtroom trial procedure.
The courtroom investigation is doomed to be the center of criminal procedure, if we regard the criminal adjudication as the central part of criminal procedure.
The importance of the recognition of such covert communication is discussed in terms of protecting the child victim from post-disclosure revictimization; in the courtroom, in supervised or unsupervised visitation, and in reunification of the family.
Court Hearing Authentication is the newly emerging thing after our country's criminal procedure law being amended. The questions above-mentioned are the questions of theoretical and practical value that need to be settled urgently after our country's criminal procedure law being amended. The author makes a preliminary research on establishing our country's court hearing authentication rule. In this article,the author brings forward the view that all evidence should be corroborated at courtroom, namely...
It is a common practice for administrative body to mediate a certain range of civil disputes in countries all over the world. In China, the legal basis of the administrative incidental civil mediation is found in many existent laws and regulations. Three preconditions should be met for the reconsideration of the administrative incidental civil mediation: the legal acceptability of the administrative reconsideration case; the inner correlation between two claims of different natures; the civil claim's being...
This paper is devoted to a quantitative analysis of transcriptions of 6 different but typical courtroom trials in terms of turns and adjacency pairs (distinguished as “question-response pairs” and “non-question-response pairs”) as well as distribution of question acts and their different forms among trial participants in the trial process with an eye to revealing the status quo of Chinese forensic reforms, the status of the participants in terms of discourse space and initiation-response relationship,...