Nouvelles techniques et droit de la preuve : constat et perspectives
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Abstract EN:
Proof, an essential tool of the law in the search for truth, cannot remain indifferent to the emergence of new informati on technology. If the written word (in the form of original handwritten documents) has long constituted the most common means of communication, and with this an essential element in a contract, its existence is today being supplanted by the mass arrival of processes arising from technology (principally computer technology). Therefore, it is imperative that the law of proof should adapt to these new data. Their use (which is ever more systemat ic is likely to generate difficulties in the medium term, since their value as proof has not been determined and all the less so accepted. Even though the law of july 12 1980 relating to the partial modification of the law of proof, together with an evolutionary legal approach, implicitly but timidly extended the range of probative instruments, it neverthless remains the case that interventions of a legal nature (among others) are desirable and practicably feasible.
Abstract FR:
La preuve, outil primordial du droit dans la recherche de la verite ne peut rester indifferente a l'emergence des nouvelles techniques de l'information. Si l'ecrit (en tant qu'original papier manuscrit) a longtemps constitue le moyen de communication le plus utilise, et par la meme un support contractuel esentiel, son existence est aujourd'hui supplantee par l'arrivee massive de procedes issus de la technologie (principalement l'informatique). Aussi, il est imperatif que le droit probatoire s'adapte a ces nouvelles donnees. Leur utilisation (de plus en plus systematique) risque a moyen terme de generer des difficultes, leur force probante n'etant pas determinee et a fortiori acceptee. Meme si la loi du 12 juillet 1980 ayant trait a un remaniement partiel du droit de la preuve, asociee a une approche jurisprudentielle evolutive ont implicitement mais timidement elargi la gamme des instruments probatoires, il n'en demeure pas moins que des interventions de nature legale (entre autre) sont souhaitables et pratiquement realisables.