域外取证法律冲突下证人权益保障问题的审视

Review of the Guarantee of the Witness' s Rights while Taking Evidence Abroad under the Conflict of Law

域外取证以及国际民事诉讼程序以实现和维护私权利为其最终目标,域外取证与证人权利保障具有逻辑上的共生性和制度上的统一性。保障证人的权利应当尊重证人的权利主体地位,完善证人权益的法律适用机制,设立证人的免证特权制度以及权利受损的救济机制。此外,充分应对信息技术条件下对证人权益保障提出的新问题,尤其需要关注在电子证据和视频取证领域证人权利事项。在维护和保障证人权益方面,现行的域外取证体制以及我国的国内立法均有较大的改进余地和完善空间。

Since the ultimate goal of international civil procedure is to protect and realize the private rights,the mechanism for taking evidence abroad and those for protecting witness＇ s rights are logically symbiotic and consistent. For the purpose of safeguarding rights of witness,the witness should be entitled and vested with legal capability as subject of right,perfect the law application system,and establish specific rules for immunity from testimony,and remedy mechanism. Besides that,proper attention should be given to the new questions resulting from widely used information and digit technology,especially to the witness＇ s rights in taking electronic evidence and items related abroad by digit video. In this respect,there＇s a further improvement that can be made to the current domestic system and legislation.