Research On The Application Of Evidence Rules In Internet Courts

The development of the Internet has profoundly changed people’s traditional way of production and lifestyles.While enjoying the convenience brought by technology,they also have to face a large number of Internet-related disputes that follow.In response to the rapid increase in Internet-related disputes,Internet courts were immediately established in China,ushering in a new era of solving frequent Internet-related disputes.Due to the virtuality and borderlessness of cyberspace,facts of cyber disputes are generated and stored in cyberspace,coupled with the electronic form of evidence and the flooding of electronic evidences,domestic traditional civil rules of evidence have encountered problems and great impact when dealing with cyber-related disputes.The construction of Internet courts has brought opportunities and challenges to the establishment of evidence rules for Internet-related disputes.How to harmonize the evidence rules applied by Internet courts with the existing evidence standards is a new topic that Internet courts has brought to the academic community.Therefore,it is necessary for us to pay attention to the influence of the Internet court trial mode on the traditional evidence rules,so as to adapt the Internet court to the characteristics of litigation in the Internet age,and to pursue judicial efficiency while paying attention to ensuring the fairness and justice of litigation.This study explores the trial practice and legislation of Internet courts,starting from the process of evidence collection,cross-examination and certification in Internet courts,and finds out the main problems in the application of evidence rules in domestic Internet courts,and proposes corresponding improvement plans.This study first introduces the status quo and significance of the rules of evidence applied by Internet courts,including Internet-related disputes leading to the establishment of Internet courts,the current legislative status and characteristics of evidence rules applied by Internet courts to resolve massive Internet-related disputes,and the significance of Internet courts applying evidence rules;Secondly,from the perspective of evidence collection,cross-examination and certification in Internet courts,it points out the problems in the application of evidence rules in Internet courts domestic judicial practice,and analyzes the reasons from the two dimensions of both theory and practice;finally,it addresses the issues raised in the second part based on the analysis and induction of the existing theories,it proposes countermeasures to improve the rules of evidence applicable to Internet courts in China.