The article is devoted to such a topical issue as the use of electronic evidence in court. The purpose of the article is to determine the basic principles of electronic evidence, study domestic and foreign legislation on the use of electronic evidence in court, determine their place in the system of evidence, and identify problems with evidence in court. It was found that electronic evidence should be understood as factual data that are displayed in digital forms and recorded on any type of

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... a, as well as after processing by electronic computers become possible and accessible to human perception. It has been established that in most of the European countries we study, electronic evidence is unquestionably classified as written and is not singled out. It has been identified that electronic documents have the same legal force in some countries as paper documents. It was concluded that in Azerbaijan the procedure for collecting and examining electronic evidence in domestic proceedings should be improved to avoid various technical errors, as well as to strengthen cybersecurity measures and increase basic knowledge of judges in the field of information technology.