摘要
近年来,强调证人负有"作证"甚至是"出庭作证"义务已成为法学界主流话语下的应然观点,很少有质疑的声音。然而稍加思考就会发现,这种理解在学理上存在矛盾之处,而且与现行法律规定也不十分契合。证人有广义和狭义之分,对于广义证人(知情人)来说",作证"并不是其所负有的应然义务,而是一项权利,只有狭义证人才负有不可推卸的作证义务。
In recent years, it has become an only natural view-point in law circles that a witness is under obligation to "testify" even to "bear witness in a lawcourt". But there are contradictions in scientific principes in the above-mentioned view-point, and this understanding does not accord with existing legal rules. Witnesses are divided into ones in broad sense and ones in narrow sense. Testification is not an obligation but a right for a witness in broad sense (person in know), and only a witness in narrow sense has bounden obligation to testify.
出处
《中共山西省委党校学报》
2010年第1期70-73,共4页
Journal of Shanxi Provincial Committee Party School of C.P.C
关键词
证人
知情人
权利
义务
witness
person in know
right
obligation