Legal analysis
The crime of perjury is clearly stipulated in relevant laws. In view of the perjury of civil litigation lawyers, once discovered, they will be disqualified and punished according to the seriousness of the case. When the case cannot be tried due to the provision of perjury, or there is a major error in the trial result, the relevant responsible person will be investigated for criminal responsibility. Therefore, as an important participant in civil litigation, lawyers should abide by professional ethics and laws and regulations. Perjury in civil proceedings does not constitute perjury, and perjury is only in the process of criminal proceedings. In civil litigation, the parties bear the burden of proof for their own claims, and the other party can refute their own evidence. Therefore, the harm of perjury by the parties is less than that of criminal cases, but it does not mean that witnesses will not be investigated for legal responsibility for perjury in civil proceedings.
legal ground
Article 306 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * In criminal proceedings, defenders and agents ad litem who destroy or falsify evidence, help the parties to destroy or falsify evidence, threaten or induce witnesses to change their testimony about facts or commit perjury shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years. Witness testimony or other evidence provided, presented or quoted by defenders or agents ad litem is inaccurate, not intentionally forged, and does not belong to forged evidence.