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美国的民事审前程序是指从起诉到开庭审判之间的中间程序,主要包括证据开示(discovery)和审前会议(pretrial conferences)两个阶段。审前程序的目的在于清除无关的事项,准许当事人获得信息,并且确定是否存在适于审判的争点,减少“伏击审判”(trial by ambush)。
The civil pretrial procedure in the United States refers to the intermediate procedure from prosecution to trial, which mainly includes the stages of discovery and pretrial conferences. The purpose of pre-trial proceedings is to remove irrelevant matters, to allow the parties access to the information, and to determine whether there is a forum for trial to reduce “trial by ambush”.