The Study on the Evolution of Public Trail and the Value of Cultivating Citizen's Legal Consciousness

Although China's system of socialist laws was formed until 2011, one of the four principles of litigation activities in our country - the principle of public trial, which we already had a deep understanding about it at the beginning of establishing legal system in the 70s and 80s of the last century. The practice of the principle of public trial has played an important role in fostering the legal consciousness of the parties in the trial, the participants involved in the trial, the audience, even the media and the public that concern about the trial. But we should also see that the public trial carry out in some places with the activities of "get into five" or "get into seven", which damage the personal privacy rights for the defendant especially for the criminal defendants that are convicted, besides, the grass -roots trial activities also increase judicial cost while weaken the judicial self-restraint, and these problems both prompt our country to continue to pay attention to practice when promote the open trial.