远程作证的条件及其衡量——基基于澳大利亚司法个案的观察

当下远程作证等电子司法手段的运用缺乏可预测性，恣意性问题逐步凸显。如何构建远程作证规制的观念与方法基础，澳大利亚的实践提供了有效样本。通过其司法个案观察，远程作证条件可理解为积极条件和消极条件的区分，出庭不便的具体情形与阻却远程作证的因素均为法官衡量的基本内容。在两者之间权衡时，摈弃实用主义立场，坚持司法公正的价值取向，以保证远程作证条件适用的一致性与妥当性。

Condition of Remote Testimony and its Measurement——Based on the Observation of Australian Judicial Case

The problems of arbitrariness and lack of predictability in the applying of electronic justice methods such as remote testimony are gradually highlighted. Australian practice provides an effective sample on how to construct the conceptual and methodological bases of remote testimony regulation. Through its judicial case observation, the conditions of remote testimony in Australia can be divided into the positive and negative conditions. Factors such as the inconveniences of appearing before the court ,and the obstruction of remote testimony are basic elements for judges to measure. We should abandon pragmatism, adhere to the basic value orientation of judicial justice and ensure the consistency and propriety of the application of remote testimony conditions as far as possible when balancing the two types of conditions.