In an unprecedented ruling, China’s Supreme Court has decreed that evidence authenticated using blockchain technology is admissible in court and could be used in legal proceedings.
The high court’s decision also provided advice for the country’s internet courts in reviewing legal disputes.
“Internet courts shall conduct cases online, and the litigation links such as acceptance, delivery, mediation, evidence exchange, pre-trial preparation, court trial, and sentencing shall be completed online. According to the application of the party or the need for the trial, the Internet court may decide to complete some of the litigation links online,” the decision said.
It also ordered Internet courts to accept digital data submitted as evidence by any of the parties that are collected and stored through the blockchain. However, the collected data must contain valuable information such as digital ...
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