Audio and video recordings as a type of electronic evidence in civil proceedings

Abstract

The scientific article presents the results of the study of the procedural features of the collection, study and evaluation of audio and video recordings as court evidence in civil proceedings. The process of formation and perception of audio and video recordings as court evidence is studied, their role and significance in the process of court evidence are determined. The prevailing in the legal literature, the views of scholars on the affiliation of audio and video recordings to a particular type of evidence, in particular as a type of written evidence, as a type of physical evidence, as a separate independent type of evidence.

The issue of using audio and video recordings as evidence in the process of judicial evidence in civil cases, in particular the question of the legality of its receipt by the party in the case leads to doubts about the admissibility of using these materials as court evidence. It is established that the objection of a party to the trial against the use of audio or video recordings made without their permission as evidence in a particular case, with reference to the violation of their right to respect for private life, raises the question of the admissibility of such evidence. The procedure for the use of video recordings obtained as a result of video surveillance at the workplace and sound recordings of business negotiations in the process of judicial evidence has been established. Some aspects of the legality of obtaining a video of an offense for submission to the court as evidence are explained.

The legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the possibility of using video surveillance data in the workplace in the process of judicial evidence are studied and it is established that business, professional activity of an individual can be considered as part of his private life. negotiations should be considered an interference with a person's private life. Four circumstances have been identified that the court must establish in determining the admissibility of a video made in the workplace as evidence in court. It is established that the systemic unity of these circumstances allows the court to conclude on the admissibility or inadmissibility of such a video as evidence in court