CIVIL LIABILITY OF NOTARIES: LEGISLATION, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, JUDICIAL PRACTICE

Abstract

The publication focuses on the institute of civil liability of notaries, which forms the foundation of professional notarial law. The fundamental nature of this institution, the author argues, is predetermined by the tasks of the notary and the need to create a system of legislative guarantees for their implementation, among which it is the notary’s property liability that occupies one of the first places. The article raises the problem of the effectiveness of the mechanism of civil liability of notaries in the Russian Federation. The stages of development of its legislative regulation are highlighted, the results of the modernization of the institute are summarized. The author formulates specific proposals to improve the current notarial legislation in our country, based on the analysis of judicial practice and the use of foreign experience of legislative regulation.