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JUDICIAL CONCILIATION AND JUDICIAL CONCILIATOR

JUDICIAL CONCILIATION AND JUDICIAL CONCILIATOR

E.A. EVTUKHOVICH,
Lecturer, Department of Civil Law and Procedure,
Voronezh State University

D.G. FILCHENKO,
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil Law and Procedure,
Voronezh State University

DOI: 10.24031/2226-0781-2020-10-6-265-293

The article analyzes the provisions of procedural legislation on judicial conciliation
and judicial conciliators. The authors review the provisions of several draft laws that
contained rules on judicial conciliators. In particular, attention is paid to the projects of
the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation, projects of the Supreme Court
of the Russian Federation, the Concept of a unified civil procedure code. The authors pay
attention to the experience of foreign states in the formation of the institution of judicial
conciliation procedures. The notion of judicial conciliation is considered in detail, as well
as individual consequences of the consolidation of provisions on judicial conciliation in
legislation. Authors conducted an independent analysis in order to compare and distinguish
between judicial conciliation and mediation. For this, the authors have formulated the
necessary criteria. The consequences of the appeal of the parties to the dispute to judicial
conciliation are revealed. The specifics of regulating relations in organizing and conducting
judicial conciliation, as well as the results of an appeal to judicial conciliation, have been
established. Most of the article is devoted to the status of the judicial conciliator. The
requirements for it are considered. The features of the position of the judicial conciliator
in the organization and conduct of judicial reconciliation are revealed. Attention is paid
by the authors to the formation of lists of judicial conciliators. The features of financing
the activities of judicial conciliators are noted.

Keywords: conciliation; conciliator; mediator; conciliation procedure; litigation; mediation;
mediator; settlement agreement; mediation agreement; court.

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Information about the author

E.A. Evtukhovich (Voronezh, Russia) – Lecturer, Department of Civil Law and
Procedure, Voronezh State University (1 Universitetskaia Sq., Voronezh, 394036, Russia;

D.G. Filchenko (Voronezh, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil Law and Procedure, Voronezh State University (1 Universitetskaia
Sq., Voronezh, 394036, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]).

Recommended citation

Evtukhovich E.A., Filchenko D.G. Sudebnoe primirenie i sudebnyi primiritel’ [Judicial
Conciliation and Judicial Conciliator]. Vestnik grazhdanskogo protsessa – Herald of Civil
Procedure, 2020, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 265–293. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-
0781-2020-10-6-265-293

E.A. EVTUKHOVICH, D.G. FILCHENKO