О ДОКАЗЫВАНИИ И ДОКАЗАТЕЛЬСТВАХ В ЦИВИЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ ПРОЦЕССЕ (ПАМЯТИ ПРОФЕССОРА М.К. ТРЕУШНИКОВА)

Abstract

Proof and evidence reflect the quintessence of civil procedure; this is the “litmus test”, which inevitably and clearly shows the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of basic principles, efficiency (or ineffectiveness) of the legislative paradigm of civil procedure, predictive function of science. It is no coincidence that the problems of proof and evidence-including in their traditional hypostasis-have always been the focus of attention of prominent domestic proceduralists, beginning in the 19th century. A pleiad of Russian pre-revolutionary scholars who turned their eyes to forensic evidence – E.V. Vaskovskii, A.Kh. Golmsten, K.I. Malyshev, E.A. Nefediev, B.V. Popov, – which is continued in the 20th century by S.N. Abramov, A.F. Kleinman, S.V. Kurylev, P.P. Gureev, L.P. Smyshliaev, Ia.L. Shtutin, and K.S. Iudelson (we do not aim to name all names) is brilliant. And not coincidentally, we believe, the problems of judicial proof and judicial evidence became the core of scientific research and achievements of Professor M.K. Treushnikov, who continued the best traditions of domestic jurisprudence and formulated the basis of the modern evidential paradigm in civil proceedings, which was legislatively reflected in the 2002 Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.