所谓员额,就是特定岗位或者职位的人员限额。司法员额制,是指有关司法机关包括法院和检察院在编制内根据办案工作量、辖区人口、经济发展等因素确定的司法官包括法官和检察官的职数限额制度。
电视剧《底线》中的“入额”指的是法官入额。《中华人民共和国法官法》第二十五条规定:法官实行员额制管理。法官员额根据案件数量、经济社会发展情况、人口数量和人民法院审级等因素确定,在省、自治区、直辖市内实行总量控制、动态管理,优先考虑基层人民法院和案件数量多的人民法院办案需要。员额制度,就是通过选拔的方式将法院内部的人员分门别类,具体分为三个类别:审判人员、审判辅助人员、司法行政人员。只有审判人员才属于员额制内的法官,其他两个类别的人员则属于员额制度之外的工作人员。
同时,官方对《法官法》第25条的翻译如下:Judges shall be subjected to personnel ration management. The staff quota of judges is determined based on the number of cases, the level of economic and social development, the population, and the level of people’s courts. Total staffing control and dynamic management shall be implemented in provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, whilst top priority be given to the case handling needs of the primary-level people’s courts and the people’s courts with big caseloads handling.
从上述译文可以看出,官方根据句意对“员额”提供了不同的译法,比如“personnel ration”“staff quota”。
除此之外,通过查询可发现,“法官员额制”也有译为“Judicial System for Specified Number of Judge Personnel”“judge personnel system”“judge quota system”“quota judge system”。其中,第三种译法应用比较广泛,例句如下:
Thanks to comprehensive implementation of judicial accountability reform, improvement of the classified management system of judicial personnel, and full adoption of judge quota system reform, the number of judges has been streamlined from 198,800 to 120,000, and procurators from 158,000 to 86,000. (来源:Full text: New Progress in the Legal Protection of Human Rights in China)
最后一种译法的例句如下:
The SPC has been relatively late in expanding transparency concerning its own judges for reasons explored below. Information concerning the number of judges on the SPC was not readily available until July, 2017, when reports on the implementation of the quota judge system in the Supreme People’s Court revealed that there had been 642 judges,with 367 judges designated as quota [员额制] judges. (来源:HOW MANY WOMEN JUDGES DOES THE SUPREME PEOPLE’S COURT HAVE?)
从上述例句还可以得到“入额法官”或许可以译为“quota judge”。
来源:
中华人民共和国最高人民检察院官网;
中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室;
中国人大网;
百度百科;
Supreme People's Court Monitor