E.I. NOSYREVA, 

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, 

Head of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure 

of the Voronezh State University 

The article analyzes a new category of cases related with the court assistance regarding arbitration. The author notes that recent changes of the Civil Procedure Code and the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation are logical step as far as institute of private arbitration and state courts interwork together for a list of issues, and it is necessary to coordinate and regulate them. In civil procedure there is a new category of cases, where a court has not a control function but function of assistance in relation to arbitration courts. The procedural features in comparative to the cases in which the court performs the function of control over arbitration are revealed. Attention is drawn to specific object of court assistance, scope of persons who have the right to apply to the court to application on assistance, territorial jurisdiction, pre-trial claim, inadmissibility of the court’s ruling appeal and other. The issues of court possibility to examine of arbitration agreement on the subject of it validity during the consideration of the assistance questions and need for relevant information in order to the court may appoint the arbitrator and other issues are discussed. 

Keywords: arbitration; arbitration agreement; arbitral tribunal; formation of arbitral tribunal; function of court assistance regarding arbitration; kinds of civil proceedings.