%0 Journal Article %T Inspiration from Common Law System for Perfecting China's Pre-Trail Procedure in Civil Actions %A Han WANG %A Tao ZHAN %J Canadian Social Science %D 2011 %I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture %R 10.3968/2183 %X Pre-trail procedure plays an important part in civil procedures. When building up the civil procedure system in China, the importance of it has been ignored and the pre-trail procedure stays as an attachment to the court proceeding. This paper analyses defects existed in pre-trail procedure in civil actions in China and tries to discuss the perfecting it while studying from the common law system. Key words: Civil procedure; Pre-trail procedure; Diverse settlement mechanism %K Civil procedure %K Pre-trail procedure %K Diverse settlement mechanism %U http://cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/view/2183