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ON COGNITION AND PROVING IN CASES OF NON-CONTENTIOUS JURISDICTION
V.V. ARGUNOV,
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil Procedure, Law Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University
The article analyzes the general theory of judicial knowledge and proof, its capabilities and
implementation in the consideration and resolution of cases of special proceedings in civil,
arbitration, administrative proceedings. The approaches to cognitive and evidentiary activities
in controversial (claim) and indisputable (special) proceedings are compared. The author
considers the original system of collecting, presenting and evaluating evidences, created in the
field of voluntary jurisdiction in the countries of civil law, its advantages and disadvantages in
comparison with the national tradition of the unity of legal regulation of judicial knowledge
and proof. An overview of the current state of the doctrine and practice of proving in special
proceedings is given, an opinion is expressed about the need to refine the general provisions on
proving in special proceedings. The prospects for the normative establishment of the limits of
judicial research in terms of the volume of facts and the depth of their knowledge are outlined.
It is stated that in cases of special proceedings, the “standard of proof” has always been higher
in comparison with cases of claim proceedings. A number of new rules for establishing the
circumstances of cases and proving are proposed: the priority of direct personal perception
of the judge in the cognition of facts that are important for the case before proving them;
freedom of means of evidence – the ability to use information about the circumstances of the
case without restrictions on its sources (means of proof); freedom in choosing the rules for
extracting information from a source (means of proof); different regulation of the burden of
confirmation and the burden of proof.
Keywords: action proceedings; special proceedings; judicial knowledge; proof; evidence;
assessment of evidence; relevance; admissibility; reliability; sufficiency; standards of proof.
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Information about the author
V.V. Argunov (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil Procedure, Law Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University
(1 Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]).
Recommended citation
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https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2021-11-5-307-348
V.V. ARGUNOV
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