司法过程中法律方法的功能有两种:一般功能和特殊功能。前者体现在任何案件审判过程中,而后者的作用既可能基于正当目的也可能基于非正当目的。法律方法在司法审判中受到多重权力关系的影响,使法官无法独立地将其一般功能加以充分发挥。这是我国司法实践存在的一个重要问题,也是我国司法改革陷入困境的一个综合反映。从理论和制度上来重新设定司法中各种权力关系的运行规则,为司法减负,强化法律方法一般功能的发挥而抑制其不当的特殊功能,是走出司法改革困境的一个正确选择。 There are two functions of the legal method in judicial process: general function and special function. The former is reflected in the trial of any case, while the latter’s role may be based on just as it is or may be based on unjust objectives. The legal approach is subject to the multiple power relations in judicial trials, so that judges can not fully exert their general functions independently. This is an important issue existing in the judicial practice in our country and is also a comprehensive reflection of the troubled judicial reform in our country. From the theory and system to reset the operational rules of the various power relations in the judiciary, to relieve the burden of justice, to strengthen the general function of legal methods to suppress its inappropriate special functions, is out of the judicial reform plight of a correct choice.