民事证人评价制度的技术建构

我国民事诉讼法以及民事诉讼理论一直以来以中立证人观规定、理解证人,也以证人与案件、当事人有无利害关系作为判断证人证词证明力的重要方法。其实证人都在一定程度上、一定方式上与案件或当事人有这样或那样的关系,中立的证人不仅是一种乌托邦的设想,同时与现代诉讼制度改革是异质的。为此,应在反思传统中立证人观的基础上,确立与之适应的证人评价法,这就是矛盾评价法。

Establishing the Witness Assessment Institution in Civil Procedure

For the purpose of the Civil Litigation Act and civil procedure theories,the witness is always provided or understood as a neutral one and witness's having no interest with respect to the case or the parties is also an important criterion to judge the weight of his/her testimony.However,to some extent or in some way,a witness is normally associated with a party or parties and a neutral witness is but a Utopian hope which is inconsistent with the present reform of procedural institution.As such,based on a criticism of the traditional neutral witness doctrine,a correspondent witness assessment way,i.e."contradiction assessment way" should be taken.