Вопросы судебного доказывания по гражданским делам о защите чести и достоинства граждан, а также деловой репутации граждан и юридических лиц

Abstract

Development of scientific problems of judicial evidence in civil cases on the protection of honor and dignity of citizens, as well as business reputation of citizens and legal entities has been and continues to be relevant, since judicial protection of these intangible goods is the main form of their protection. The aim of the study is determined by the objectively urgent need to find constructive approaches to judicial proof in civil cases on the protection of honor and dignity of citizens, as well as business reputation of citizens and legal entities. Conclu-sions dwells upon the fact that, given the principle of adversarial nature of civilized process, judicial proof is one of its key elements, which is an inter-branch procedural-legal institute. The evidence in civil cases for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation has different features from other categories of cases, in-cluding the determination of the necessary scope of evidence and its sufficiency. It is precisely this circum-stance that prompted the preparation of this article. The article analyzes features of the subject of proof, duties of proof, means of proof, gathering verification and evaluation of evidence, as well as the standard for defama-tion disputes. Applied to the research topic, both norms of procedural law and substantive civil law are ana-lyzed. The following methods are used: dialectical, formal-logical and other general scientific methods of re-search; special-legal methods: comparative-legal and formal-legal.