有两年不去欧洲了。2004年6月,应英国宪法事务部,法国国家参事院和意大利马尔他大学等单位的邀请,我参加了中国法学会代表团,去这三个国家考察司法独立制度和保障司法独立的机制。我曾经多次到英国考察司法情况,听说近年来这三个国家司法改革的力度很大,再去一趟,“温故而知新”,定会有新收获。 I will not go to Europe for two years. In June 2004, at the invitation of the British Constitutional Affairs Department, the French State Councils and the University of Malta, I attended a delegation of the Chinese Law Society and went to these three countries to examine the system of independent judiciary and the mechanism for guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary. I have visited the United Kingdom on many occasions to study the judicial situation. I have heard that the judicial reforms in these three countries have been vigorously carried out in recent years. If we go on another trip, “knowing from facts” will certainly bring about new gains.