政府信息不存在答复的证明规则刍议——以最高院指导性案例101号为背景

Discussion on Proving Rules about Reply of No Required Government Information Based on the 101th guiding case

政府信息公开案件的审查重点不仅是被告答复行为的合法性,更偏重于对原告诉讼请求的回应。而政府信息不存在案件是政府信息公开案件中更为特殊的一类案件,体现在司法审查中的证明对象、证明责任分配以及证明标准都存在争议。最高院发布的101号案件首次确定被告应当对“充分、合理”的“查找、检索”义务承担举证责任,而原告仅需要提供政府信息存在的初步证据。在政府信息不存在案件大量涌现的背景下,从该案中抽象出此类案件的证明规则对于保护当事人的知情权、规范行政机关政府信息答复工作的作用举足轻重。

The judicial focuses on government information disclosure cases is not only the legality of the defendant's response,but also the review and response to the plaintiff's claim.The case of non-existent government information is a more special type of case for the object of certification,the distribution of burden of proof and the standard of proof reflected in judicial review are controversial.The 101th case issued by the Supreme People's Court first confirmed that the defendant should bear the burden of proof for the full and reasonable search obligation,and the plaintiff only needs to provide evidence of the existence of government information.the abstraction rules reflected in the case play an important role in protecting the parties'right and standardizing the government's response to government information.