One of the most important changes to the legal regulations in 2019 is the reform of the civil procedure introduced by the Act of July 4, 2019 amending the Act - Code of Civil Procedure and certain other acts. One of the most important goals of this reform was to improve the implementation of the civil right to a fair trial. According to the authors of the reform, the existing solutions in terms of the manner of conducting civil proceedings have worked well under conditions of a relatively low burden on civil courts. Among all the novelties introduced by the Act of July 4, 2019, the reactivation of separate proceedings in economic cases is particularly high. It is worth recalling here that separate proceedings in commercial cases were introduced into the Code of Civil Procedure on October 1, 1989 under the Act on the examination of commercial cases by courts. It was abolished on May 3, 2012, while separate commercial courts and a separate concept of an economic case were retained, therefore commercial courts heard commercial cases in “ordinary” proceedings. The initiators of the amendment pointed to the fact that the statistical indicators of the evaluation of the work of commercial courts indicate that this court procedure for resolving commercial disputes did not meet the requirements of economic transactions