Inspiration from Common Law System for Perfecting China's Pre-Trail Procedure in Civil Actions

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