A.A. SMOLA, 

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Full State Counselor in Justice of the 3rd Class, 

Advisor of the «Bartolius» Law Firm 

Yu.V. TAY, 

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Private 

and Civil Law of the MGIMO University, 

Managing Partner of the «Bartolius» Law Firm

 

The authors of the article analyze the bill brought in by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to the State Duma in early October of 2017. This bill is aimed at reforming the procedural legislation in a number of areas, but the subject of the study is amendments to the Civil Procedure Code and the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. In particular, the background of the amendments proposed in the bill, the correlation of the proposals with the current provisions of the law and the contradictions are revealed, the consequences of adopting new provisions are predicted. The first part of the article is devoted to the recusal of a judge, notices of process, expedited procedures (summary and writ proceedings), and the review under new circumstances as a result of changes in the highest court’s interpretation of the law. Proposals concerning jurisdiction, representation, cancellation of the statement of reasons as an obligatory component of the judicial acts and some others will be considered in the second part of the article. The first part also outlines some alternative proposals for resolving the problems the judicial system is facing at present – they will be described in more detail following the results of the analysis. 

Keywords: civil procedure rules; arbitration procedure rules; bill on the proceedings reform; recusal of a judge; notices of process; summary proceedings; writ proceedings; retrial under new circumstances. 

 References 

Patsatsiya M.S. O diskretsionnykh polnomochiyakh dolzhnostnykh lits Verkhovnogo Suda v grazhdanskom i arbitrazhnom protsessakh [On the Discretionary Powers of Officials of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in Civil and Arbitration Procedure]. Vestnik grazhdanskogo protsessa = Herald of Civil Procedure, 2015, no. 5. (In Russian) 

Patsatsiya M.S. O temporal’nom aspekte primeneniya ch. 8 st. 291.6 APK RF [On the Temporal Aspect of Application of Clause 8 of Article 291.6 of the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation]. Vestnik grazhdanskogo protsessa = Herald of Civil Procedure, 2017, no. 4. (In Russian) 

Smola A.A. Pravovye pozitsii Vysshego Arbitrazhnogo Suda RF kak novye obstoyatel’stva [Ratio Decidendi of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation as New Circumstances]. Vestnik VAS RF = Herald of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation, 2011, no. 12. (In Russian) 

Tay Yu.V., Arabova T.F., Burdon V.L. Otvod sudey kak garantiya nezavisimosti suda [Recusal of Judges as a Guarantee of the Court Independence]. Vestnik VAS RF = Herald of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation, 2014, no. 8. (In Russian) 

Voskanyan M.Z. Zayavil otvod sudu – zloupotrebil protsessual’nymi pravami? [Recused the Judge – Abused Procedural Rights?]. Rossijskij sud’ya = Russian Judge, 2012, no. 5. (In Russian) 

Information about the authors 

Smola A.A. (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Full State Counselor in Justice of the 3rd Class, Advisor of the «Bartolius» Law Firm (115054, Moscow, Stremyanny Lane, 38; e-mail: [email protected]); 

Tay Yu.V. (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Private and Civil Law of the MGIMO University, Managing Partner of the «Bartolius» Law Firm (115054, Moscow, Stremyanny Lane, 38; e-mail: tay@ bartolius.com). 

Recommended citation 

Smola A.A., Tay Yu.V. «Sud skoryi, pravyi, milostivyi»: poltora veka v poiskakh aurea mediocritas [«The Quick and Fair Trial»: A Century and a Half in Search of Aurea Mediocritas]. Вестник гражданского процесса = Herald of Civil Procedure, 2018, no. 1, p. 346–370. (In Russian) DOI: 10.24031/2226-0781-2018-8-1-346-370