Guangzhou Court Launches Blockchain-Based System for Collecting Testimony – Bits Media

Guangzhou City Court Launches Blockchain-Based System for Collecting Testimony. It enables online cross-examination and expedites investigation.

As part of the "cross-examination", one of the parties uploads their testimony to system. Then the second side, under the supervision of a judge, conducts a cross -study - clarifies the testimony and asks questions. All data is recorded in the blockchain, as well as changes in indications and additional questions.

In connection with the pandemia of the coronavirus, the collection of testimony was noticeably complicated, especially, when is a person’s personal presence, who lives far from the location of the court. Sending documents by mail also takes too much time. The use of the electronic system on the blockchain simplifies and accelerates the collection of indications and cross interrogations.

The system has already been tried as part of a civil case. The plaintiff filed a lawsuit to the defendant in connection with non -payment of a loan of more than a million yuan ($170 000) Plus interest. As part of the initial trial, the lower court ordered the defendant to pay $ 108,000, However, the plaintiff did not suit this and the appeal was filed in the intermediate court Guangzhou, where the system was used on the blockchain.

It is worth noting, what else in 2018 year the Supreme People's Court of China recognized
blockchain as a means for authentication of evidence during trial.