A Study on the Construction of Excepted Causes in the Order System of Documents in China — Taking Civil Litigation in the Civil Law System as the Main Reference
The original intention of the order system is to correct the deviationof evidence and discover the truth of the case. In 2019, the Supreme People’sCourt promulgated the “Several Provisions on Evidence in Civil Proceedings”,which marked the further elaboration of the applicable rules of the documentfiling order system, but the new regulations still did not mention the reasons forexcluding the obligation of filing documents or the legal circumstances underwhich filing can be refused. A lack of exclusions would inevitably impose anunreasonable litigation burden on the holder of the instrument, ignoring theparticular interests of the holder in the instrument. Therefore, it is necessary toclarify the legislative development source of the order and its exclusions in ourcountry, abstractically summarize the practical dilemma caused by the lack ofexclusions, and then take the successful experience of civil procedure law in thecivil law system as a reference to provide suggestions for the construction ofChina’s exclusions.