真实与民主：和谐社会法院调解的支柱

作为我国本土有效的纠纷解决之道和优秀法律文化传统,调解的精髓在于在维持当事人关系和谐的前提下实现实质正义.而在当今和谐社会构建的背景之下,充分发挥调解精髓的关键在于民主调解.因此,新时期民事诉讼法改革中,如何做到使当事人程序权利得以充分保障,又坚持调解的民主与真实原则,是一个值得深入探讨的话题.对坚持调解真实原则的分析,涉及民事诉讼基本制度的解读,关键在于对“真实”二字准确而灵活的把握;对于尚未确立于调解制度中的民主原则的引入,则更多是从法社会学和法律文化角度去证明其融入法院调解制度的必要性.

Truth and Democracy:A Pillar of Court Mediation in Harmonious Society

As an effective way to solve disputes and a good tradition of legal culture in our country, the essence of mediation is to realize fairness and justice and meanwhile to keep harmonious relations between parties involved. Against the background of constructing our harmonious society, the key to bringing mediation into full play is to maintain the principle of democracy. Consequently, it has become an important topic in the reform of Law of Civil Procedure to fully safeguard the fights of the involved parties and maintain the guidelines of truth and democracy. This essay involves an analysis of the principle of truth and an interpretation of the basic system concerning civil actions. Additionally, this essay verifies the need to instill the principle of democracy into court mediation from the perspectives of the legal sociology and the legal culture.