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ON THE NATURE OF RELATIONSHIPS FOR RECONCILIATION AND THE DESIRABILITY OF THEIR REGULATION IN CIVIL PROCEDURAL CODES

S.S. KAZIKHANOVA,
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Administrative Procedure,
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)

https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2021-11-3-109-131

The article analyzes the changes made to the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation,
the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation and the Administrative Code
of the Russian Federation by the Federal Law of 26 July 2019 No. 197-FZ, related to
the regulation of conciliation procedures. The question is raised as to whether the civil
procedural codes should regulate relations on reconciliation and to what extent. Agreement
is expressed with those authors who believe that, by their nature, the relations that develop
in conciliation procedures between its participants (including in cases where the conciliation
procedure is directed by a judge) are not procedural and are not part of the subject of
civil procedural law. The non-procedural nature of the relationship between the judicial
conciliator and the court in the procedure of judicial conciliation under the Civil Procedure
Code of the Russian Federation, the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation
and the Administrative code of the Russian Federation is substantiated. It is concluded that
due to the qualitatively different nature of reconciliation relations from civil procedural
relations, as well as their lack of connection with the resolution of a civil case in a certain
system of guarantees (civil procedural form), there is no place for articles on individual
conciliation procedures among procedural norms. In this regard, it is proposed to either
exclude them, or, as an option, transfer them to the appendix to the Civil Procedure Code
of the Russian Federation, the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, the
Administrative code of the Russian Federation (just as in the Civil Procedure Code of 1964
there was an appendix, in particular, about the arbitration court).

Keywords: reform of civil procedure; subject of civil procedural law; civil procedural legal
relations; conciliation procedures; judicial conciliation; mediator.

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Information about the author

S.S. Kazikhanova (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Administrative Procedure, Kutafin Moscow State Law
University (MSAL) (9 Sadovaia-Kudrunskaia St., Moscow, 125993, Russia; e-mail: sskazihanova@
msal.ru).

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