Procedure for the Examinination of Evidence in Torts Litigation

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손해배상청구소송에 있어서의 증거조사절차
"Procedure for the Examinination of Evidence in Torts Litigation"

Hwang, Hyun-Ho
Department of Law
Graduate School, Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Korea
(supervised by professor Kwon, Hyuk-Jae)

요약(Abstract)

손해배상청구 소송은 민사소송사건 중 차지하는 비중이 아주 크다. 사건의 절대적인 건수가 많을 뿐 아니라, 사건마다 특수한 사정이 많이 개입되어 있어 쟁점이 다양하다. 또한 사회환경의 변화 및 권리의식의 발전에 따라서 새로운 형태의 손해배상 청구 소송이 늘어나고 있다.
The torts litigation is important in our civil trials. There are substancial  number of torts cases in our nation's courts.  Because they include many specific circumstances in each cases, they have many legal issues. According to the change of social situation and high desire of legal rights in recent years, new type of torts litigations have been brought to our courts.

[Tort litigation plays an important role in civil trials in Korea. There are so many tort cases filed these days, but also each case is different and has its own unique characteristics so that it touches upon so broad legal aspects. As the society evolves and the public is getting more and more conscious of their own legal rights in recent years, new types of tort litigations are brought to our nation’s courts.]


이러한 추세에 맞추어 손해배상 청구소송에 있어서 증거조사 방법에 관하여서도 전통적인 방법만을 고수할 것이 아니라 보다 합리적이고 효율적인 방법을 모색하는 것은 매우 중요하다.
According to this trend, we don't have to insist on the traditional method in the evidence examination and have to research more reasonable, efficient method.

[As the society evolves, the court has to change as well in order to meet these new legal requirements and challenges. Some of the traditional evidence
examination methods may be obsolete and no longer applicable to newer indemnity cases. It seems to be paramount requirements that more reasonable and scientific evidence examination methods be adopted in our nation’s courts as soon as possible.]

증거조사에 있어서 과학적인 기법의 활용, 각종 경제지표에 대한 통계자료의 활용, 증거조사 방법에 관한 진보된 외국의 제도 도입 등이 바람직하다.
For example, we could adopt scientific techniques and statistic data of the economic indicators in the evidence examination. We have to import more developed method from the foreign country.

[For instance, science, advanced technology, and statistical data of various economic indicators will all help examine legal evidences, hence enabling to reach a fair and convincing verdict. These methods could be developed locally or borrowed from other countries’ examples and adapted to fit our legal system.]

그리고 기존의 증거조사방법도 종전의 불합리한 관행을 그대로 따를 것이 아니라 절차를 간소화하여 소송관계자가 쉽게 이용할 수 있도록 실무를 개선하는 노력이 필요하다.
And we don't have to follow the unreasonable practice in the traditional method of evidence examination. We have to improve the practice by making the procedure
and method simplify.

[It will also be necessary to reeval‎uate existing methods and improve them. Those inefficient and obsolete procedures have to be simplified and streamlined so that the overall procedure is easier to use and more efficient.]

이러한 노력의 일환으로서 이 논문에서는 손해배상청구 소송에서 제출하여야 하는 서증의 종류 및 활용방법, 신체감정에 있어서 새로운 기준에 관하여 중점적으로 연구를 하였다.
For the achievement of this goal, I studied especially on how to present and examine documentary evidence to the court and introduced new standard on expert opinion of  physical impairment ratings in this article.

[With the afore-mentioned goals in mind, the author intended to focus on how to present and examine evidence documents to the court and proposed a new standard on expert opinion of physical impairment(???) ratings in this thesis.]

그 외에도 입증책임, 증명도 등 증거조사의 절차에 관한 이론적인 문제도 손해배상청구 소송의 관점에서 재검토를 하였다.
In addition, I studied the burden of proof presentation, the degree of proof witch are the traditional problems in the civil procedure law, and how to apply those problems to torts litigation.

[In the realm of civil procedure law, the burden of proof presentation and the provability of evidence tend to be problematic and controversial. In order to minimize the similar drawback, the author has carefully analyzed those aspects and tried to selectively apply them to tort litigation cases.]

막연한 이론을 탐구하기보다 구체적 사건에서 어떻게 증거조사의 이론을 적용하는 것이 바람직 한 것인가 하는 실무적 관점에서 살펴보았다.
I studied this subject in the viewpoint of a court practice, not a theory.

[Rather than reviewing the theoretical aspects of evidence examination, the author has studied how to apply the theory of evidence examination to real court cases based on the author’s experience presiding legal cases many years in court.]

그리고 사실조회, 검증, 증인신문, 당사자 신문 등 일반적인 증거조사방법에 관하여서도 손해배상청구 소송에서 활용하는 방법을 논하였으며, 마지막으로 녹음장치, 영상기기, 전자문서 등 신종 정보매체에 대한 증거조사방법에 관하여서도 살펴보았다.
And I studied how we can apply fact reference, site inspection, witness examination, party examination to the torts litigation. Finally, I studied on how to examine the voice recording tools, image recording tools, electronic document which are new type medias of information.

[Newer types of recording media such as voice recorders, digital images, and electronic documents as well as the general examination methods such as fact reference, site inspection, witness examination and party examination have been studied in the light of tort litigation.]


손해배상청구소송은 증거조사의 방법이 총동원되는 분야이다. 실무상 증거조사의 방법 및 절차가 개선되는 사례도 손해배상청구 소송에서 이루어진 경우가 많다. 이와 같이 손해배상청구 소송과 증거조사방법은 밀접한 관련이 있으며, 정확한 사실인정을 위하여 증거조사방법을 개선하고 발전시키려는 노력이 필요하다.
We have to use all kind of evidence examination in the torts litigation. So in many cases, we have improved the method and process of evidence examination through this litigation in the court practice. There are close relations between the torts litigation and evidence examination. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the method of evidence examination in the court practice for the right fact finding.

[Tort litigation tends to involve all kinds of evidence examination methods. In fact, a lot of recent advancements in the field of evidence examination was made possible thanks to those early experiments and procedural modifications initiated first in the tort litigation courts. There is a close relationship between tort litigation and evidence examination. To enhance fairness in tort litigation trials, the existing methods of evidence examination have to be constantly improved and newer methods have to be developed in the court practice.]

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