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ON THE ESSENCE OF EVIDENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE USE OF NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN CIVIL PROCEDURAL ACTIVITIES
S.F. AFANASYEV,
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor,
Head of the Department of Arbitration Procedure, Saratov State Law Academy,
Head of the Sector for Theory and Sectoral Problems of Legal Policy,
Saratov Branch of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Retired Judge
In this article, taking into account the historical aspect, an analysis of the immanent content
of such a key category as “evidence” in civil procedure is given. A gradual change in theoretical
and practical points of view on the essence of judicial evidence is revealed: from a simple
indication that it should be understood as a fact that convinces the justice body of the rightness
of the side of a legal incident (I. Vladislavlev and others); before argumentation – proof is
a dialectical trinity of content, form and procedural method of obtaining and researching
legally significant information (M.K. Treushnikov and others). In the aspect of the ongoing
dynamic digital transformation of public relations, the question of what essentially constitutes
electronic evidence, whether it should be allocated as an independent category, or whether
it is covered by means of evidence already existing in the law, is being studied. Taking into
account international and Russian experience, additional arguments are presented in favor
of the fact that electronic evidence can be successfully used in the consideration and resolution
of civil and administrative cases by courts, regardless of their autonomous consolidation in
the current procedural legislation, along with written, material and other traditional means
of proof. This is explained by the fact that by themselves electronic evidence fully meets the
basic criteria that characterize any evidence in modern civil procedure.
Keywords: civil procedure; evidence law; means of proof; new technologies; electronic (digital)
evidence; information on legally significant facts; court; persons participating in the case.
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Information about the author
S.F. Afanasyev (Saratov, Russia) – Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the
Department of Arbitration Procedure, Saratov State Law Academy, Head of the Sector
for Theory and Sectoral Problems of Legal Policy, Saratov Branch of the Institute
of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Retired Judge (1 Volskaia St., Saratov,
410056, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]).
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