Privilege Of Witness System

Privilege of witness usually refers to the statutory witness by the circumstances of the refusal to testify or give evidence suppression of the rights of others. Privilege of witness system is to protect the legal status of independent witnesses, the right to confront witnesses private national public power of a barrier is a civic right information in the embodiment of the proceedings. Privilege of witness system is based on the balance of the overall consideration of social values, is based on the balance of witnesses to testify rights and obligations of legislative considerations, but also the appearance of witnesses difficult to resolve the current consideration of the reality. Based on the legislative Two Schools of the major countries in a comparative analysis, and privileges system in China and Taiwan, the development of the region, which demonstrated the need to establish in our country and the possibilities and make their own legislative proposals and called for witnesses set system privileges scientific, reasonable limits, to protect witnesses needs special interests, the maximum reduction of the system to identify the negative impact of the case the truth, thereby further improve our system of witnesses.