PASSIVE PROCEDURAL POSITION AND THE PROBLEM OF DISHONESTY OF THE PARTIES IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS

Abstract

This article examines the approach of legal science and law enforcement to the issue of abuse of rights. The authors emphasize that the reform of procedural legislation in the first two decades of the 21st century corresponds to the tendencies of internationalization of the civil process, within the framework of which the principle of accessibility of justice in its true understanding as a legal value is concretized. In this sense, the authors state that the abuse of the right to sue is one of the most important problems of civil procedural law, requiring a solution in order to increase the fairness and efficiency of national legal proceedings. The analysis of a passive procedural position is carried out in the path of abuse of law. The authors acknowledge that, in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to severely punish dishonesty of the parties in court in order to promote good faith in civil proceedings is a response to the established jurisprudence. In addition, this article draws attention to the fact that the most important problems today are related to the improvement of mechanisms for encouraging the execution of procedural laws and rules of civil proceedings, and not just the system of punishment for dishonest behavior. This formulation of the practical problem determines the research methodology. According to the authors, the solution of serious problems associated with the dishonesty of the parties should be based not only on a theoretical (and monistic) approach, but on a pluralistic and communicative approach. And in this sense, this study is new. This article concludes that the failure of the procedural theory in the study of the phenomenon of abuse of rights and the explanation of conscientiousness in the civil proceedings is a fact of scientific development, subject to methodological research — a methodological assessment of this fact; the question arises about the essence of the phenomenon; special purposes of civil procedure — the directions of development of procedural law inevitably give rise to their own legal interpretations, in particular, this is observed in the case of assessing the good faith in the judicial proceedings for purposes of other branches of law.