China News Agency, Beijing, December 29th (Reporter Zhang Su) Blockchain technology is showing its talents in the judicial field. The reporter learned from the Supreme People's Court of China on the 29th that more than 2.8 billion pieces of evidence have been stored on the chain in courts across the country. The application efficiency and standardization of intelligent assistance and file management have been continuously improved.
As the saying goes, "Litigation is evidence", but in practice, there are problems such as scattered electronic evidence, difficulty in obtaining evidence, easy to be tampered with, and difficult to identify.
In September 2018, the Supreme People's Court issued judicial regulations acknowledging that electronic data stored in the blockchain can be used in Internet cases.
Wang Yaxin, a professor at the Law School of Tsinghua University, noticed that in recent years, under the leadership of the three Internet courts in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Guangzhou, through the establishment of electronic evidence platforms such as "judicial blockchain" and the accumulation and storage of massive electronic evidence with blockchain technology, the efficiency of handling cases has greatly improved. promote.
At the same time, the judiciary uses blockchain technology to realize the verification of electronic delivery of documents.
From January 1 this year, with the consent of the recipient, Chinese courts can serve litigation documents, including judgments, rulings, and mediation documents, by electronic means that can confirm receipt.
The Supreme People's Court announced this time that in order to better ensure the authenticity and credibility of electronically served documents, from now on, every electronic document served by the court will be stored in the judicial blockchain at the same time as it is delivered, supporting the parties and social third-party organizations to pass the verification of the Internet judicial chain platform.
At the same time, we will continue to promote the online verification of electronically served documents in courts across the country, and fundamentally solve the problems that electronically served documents are easy to be tampered with and difficult to verify.
For blockchain technology, legal experts also reminded that it is necessary to further optimize technical application specifications, ensure technology neutrality and platform neutrality, and clarify the data security protection obligations and accountability mechanisms of all parties.
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