Perfection Of Civil Procedure Illegal Evidence Exclusion Rules

The68th article in several provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on evidence in civil litigation sets down that any evidence that got by means of infringing other people’s legitimate rights and interests, or through ways prohibited by laws, cannot be trusted to confirm a fact in cases. This is the first regulations regarding illegal evidence exclusion in China, however; these regulations are deficit in preciseness and in clearness which has caused unnecessary trespassing of its application, therefore, there comes the necessity of reviewing and re-explaining of them. This essay has this necessity as its background and analyzes the theoretical and practical basis of the exclusionary rule so that it can promote the perfection of this rule in civil litigation in China.