On The System Of Investigating And Acquiring Evidence In Our Civil Action

The civil procedure reform, starting from fortifying both parties' responsibility of providing evidence, slowly developed into an overall reform because evidence is the key of civil procedure. Looking back the evidence system reform,one can easily feel that it covered a wide range of issues,from who should give evidence to time limit, types, standard and verification for evidence. But what disappointed us at the same time is that one issue has rarely been touched, I,e the procedure of legally obtaining evidences. Among the four stages of evidences obtaining evidence goes before submitting them to court,cross-questioning the evidences and confirming the evidences. The various difficulties occurred during obtaining evidences in practical life triggers the author to think over our current system and try to put forward some ideas on improving it by way of comparing some western countries civil procedure.