Making Audio and Video Recordings for the Purpose of Self-protection and their Use as Evidence in Court

The paper estimates a theoretical and legal content of the notion of self-protection as an institution of substantive civil law and the admissibility of evidence as an institute of procedural law by the example of using audio and video recordings as evidence in court. Based on the fundamental work written by V.P. Gribanov "Implementation and protection of civil rights," the author reveals the most significant aspects of the admissibility of audio and video recordings for the purpose of self-protection. As a result of the analysis of modern jurisprudence, the author concludes that in the practice of representatives and in judicial decisions the evaluation of admissibility of evidence by court is substituted by the evaluation of "admissibility" of self-protection when making audio and video recordings. As the result of this work the author identifies incomparability of the concepts in question: self-protection of civil rights is a way to protect civil rights, while the admissibility of evidence is associated with their procedural form. Such a substitution prevents evaluation of admissibility of audio and video recordings in law-enforcement practice.

audio recording, video recording, self-defense, admissibility of evidence, protection of civil rights, evaluation of evidence, substantive and procedural law, data protection, self-defence measures, electronic evidence

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