# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百六十八条 (Article 268) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二百六十八条 (Article 268)（大規模訴訟に係る事件における受命裁判官による証人等の尋問） — address `art-268` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-268 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-268 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百六十八条（大規模訴訟に係る事件における受命裁判官による証人等の尋問） — (Examination of Witnesses by an Authorized Judge in a Case Involving Large-Scale Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-268 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-268 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-268 **第一項** 裁判所は、大規模訴訟（当事者が著しく多数で、かつ、尋問すべき証人又は当事者本人が著しく多数である訴訟をいう。）に係る事件について、当事者に異議がないときは、受命裁判官に裁判所内で証人又は当事者本人の尋問をさせることができる。 art-268/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-268/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-268/par-1 In a case involving large-scale litigation (meaning litigation in which a significantly large number of parties are involved and a significantly large number of witnesses or parties themselves are to be examined), the court may have an authorized judge examine witnesses or the parties themselves inside the court, if no objection is made by the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第二百六十九条第一項（大規模訴訟に係る事件における合議体の構成） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-269/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17