Preparation of Civil Case for Trial in the Russian Civil Procedure

Abstract

Law reform, implemented in Russia, affects different aspects of legal activity. Changes also occurred in the organization and working conditions of courts and in realization of justice. The procedure of case preparation for trial had also much improved. However, changes in the legal regulation at case preparation stage date to 2002. Despite the fact that legislator gave a new meaning to this procedure stage and despite the expectation that this procedure stage would play a new role in the process as a whole, many scientists in their research repeatedly considered the preparation stage as the subject of critical analysis. Indeed, large potential of stage of case preparation for trial, as well as the experience of civil procedure in foreign countries, was omitted by legislator. And no matter how insulting it could be, this procedure stage remains to be so for already more than ten years. Therefore, it seems reasonable to consider the very key points in the formation of case preparation as the procedure stage and as an institution of civil procedural law and to indicate the tendencies in the development of rules in this area.