| 英文摘要 |
Supplementary liability in tort in China is an original creation. In order to clarify the disputed issues in doctrine and practice, it is necessary to investigate the details of institutional formation, through a combined analysis of socio-legal and doctrinal approaches, so as to identify its normative purpose. There are two routes of institutional development for supplementary liability in tort in China. The first is that in cases where false capital verification causes harm to interested parties, accounting firms bear supplementary liability connected with general surety. The second is that in cases where a hotel guest is killed by a third party, the hotel bears supplementary liability connected with the duty of security. However, both accounting firms and hotels are providers of public services; both have the duty to create an orderly space for social interaction in an impersonal society, and the duty to increase the certainty of interpersonal interaction. Moreover, the two routes have become institutionally consistent, both adopting interest-balancing as their methodology, and therefore are in fact homogeneous. After the convergence of the two routes, the scope of obligors of supplementary liability in tort is limited to public service providers, and applies only to obligors who are negligent, in order to achieve the normative purposes of protecting victims and promoting the development of public services. Under the constraints of social reality, the current supplementary liability in tort should be regarded as the optimal solution. |