Implementation of the idea of justice in the norms of legislation on consumer protection

Abstract

The article analyzes the concepts of foreign and domestic philosophers and jurists devoted to finding out what justice is in its essence. The author attempts to consider this moral and ethical category in the light of the relations that develop between entrepreneurs and consumers. To do this, the article examines the content of justice and its relationship with interest, gives the author’s understanding of justice, and explores the ways of implementing the idea of justice in the norms governing consumer rights. The methodological basis of the research is based on a systematic approach, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis that allow us to fully investigate the identified problem. In the course of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the deviation of the legislator from the principle of legal equality by giving the weak side of the consumer contract additional legal opportunities fully meets the spirit of justice. It is emphasized that the realization of the idea of justice in the context of the legal relations considered in this article is the balance of the multidirectional interests of the subjects of the consumer market achieved by legal means. At the same time, it is noted that legislative norms in general, and the norms of legislation on consumer protection in particular, are a true conductor of the idea of justice only if the public authorities are in a state of permanent search for points of balance of interests of these participants in civil turnover.