Possibility of Applying the Category "Good Faith and Abuse of Procedural Rights" to Participants in Disputes Arising from Corporate Legal Relations under the Legislation of the CIS and Neighboring Countries

N.r Safaeva

doi:10.17803/1729-5920.2021.174.5.143-150

Abstract

The existence of once common foundations of the procedural legislation of the CIS and neighboring countries with its subsequent independent development is of interest from the point of view of the analysis of individual procedural institutions. The paper examines the institution of abuse of procedural rights in relation to the category of corporate disputes.The procedural legislation of the Soviet period did not fix the concept of abuse of procedural law and did not contain its clear criteria for appropriate classification of certain negative cases in the procedural behavior of a participant in a trial in order to suppress such facts. It is with this "legacy" that the countries of the post-Soviet space approached the problem of abuse of procedural rights in the framework of the formation of their own procedural legislation. Attempts to solve this problem often had cardinal differences.As the analysis of the studied sources shows, the category of "good faith and abuse of procedural rights", in contrast to the Russian procedural legislation, is disclosed in all the examples exclusively within the general part of the procedural laws, which leaves a wide margin of discretion for the law enforcement officer when considering a particular category of disputes. Based on the analysis of the available procedural sources, two constructions of the "good faith — abuse" model were identified. The first one, the "sanctions" model of "good faith-abuse" is presented in most of the procedural sources of the CIS and neighboring countries. The second, "compensatory" model, although singled out separately in the procedural laws, does not disclose the mechanism of compensation for losses by a person who has abused his procedural rights, and therefore seems less effective in terms of protecting the victim from the unfair behavior of his procedural opponent.

Highlights

Основательный иск, или спор против иска, или систематически противодействующую скорому и правильному разрешению дела, суд может возложить уплату в пользу другой стороны вознаграждения за фактическую потерю рабочего времени в соответствии со средним заработком, но не свыше пяти процентов присужденной или отклоненной части иска» (в редакции ноября 1929 г.)
Possibility of Applying the Category "Good Faith and Abuse of Procedural Rights" to Participants in Disputes Arising from Corporate Legal Relations under the Legislation of the CIS and Neighboring Countries
It is with this "legacy" that the countries of the post-Soviet space approached the problem of abuse of procedural rights in the framework of the formation of their own procedural legislation

Summary

Introduction

Основательный иск, или спор против иска, или систематически противодействующую скорому и правильному разрешению дела, суд может возложить уплату в пользу другой стороны вознаграждения за фактическую потерю рабочего времени в соответствии со средним заработком, но не свыше пяти процентов присужденной или отклоненной части иска» (в редакции ноября 1929 г.). Как показал анализ изученных источников, категория «добросовестность и злоупотребление процессуальными правами», в отличие от российского процессуального законодательства, раскрыта во всех примерах исключительно в рамках общей части процессуальных законов, что оставляет широкую возможность усмотрения для правоприменителя при рассмотрении той или иной категории споров.

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