On the base of the assorting of the hearing cases in Shanghai City by June 2000, the paper, by the way of relevancy frame of the'prerequisite-effect', analyses the claims of each participants of the hearing procedure and the institutional space and method for the acceptance of these claims. The paper protests, aside from the expected traditional legal functions of proof of the legality and the main-tenance of right, the hearing system, at least in fact, also bears the function of dispute settlement. In the final of the paper, the author sums up the possible spaces for the performance of the functions ofthe hearing system. |