Problems of application of the electronic evidence in civil and arbitration procedure

The article is devoted to problems of application of electronic documents as evidence in civil and arbitration procedure. In article the concept of the electronic document as an evidence is considered, various opinions of different researchers on legal nature of the electronic document are revealed. Also definite problems are considered: concerning collecting and providing electronic information in court and concerning the absence in the legislation of the Russian Federation of concrete criteria of reliability of the data which are contained in the electronic document. Ways of overcoming this problem are revealed. Court practice on the named matters is considered.