Abstract: In recent years, with the development of information technology, the Internet has been gradually introduced into litigation, and the "theatreization of justice" has been gradually transformed into the "networking of justice". The networking of justice has had a profound impact on litigation procedures, not only breaking the inherent pattern in which litigation must be conducted in the courtroom, but also having important implications for the collection and verification of evidence, the service of litigation documents, and the form of court hearing records. The networking of justice makes the participation in litigation more convenient, the litigation procedures more concise and practical, and the justice closer to the people, thereby realizing the disenchantment of justice; Although the networking of justice has a broad prospect of application, if abused, it may harm the litigation rights of the parties, and even violate the value of the litigation. Therefore, online litigation should be able to balance different values of litigation as much as possible, equally protect the interests of all parties, and regulate its own scope of application, so as to prevent "the networking of justice" from falling into the quagmire of "plaza of justice".

Keywords:civil litigation; online litigation; judicial networking; judicial theaterization

The author of this article is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Source: 5 (2021) Journal of Law Application.