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THE EFFECT OF CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW IN TIME

V.G. GOLUBTSOV,
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Business Law,
Civil and Arbitration Procedure, Perm State University,
Judge of the Seventeenth Arbitration Court of Appeal

https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2021-11-3-132-152

The theoretical analysis of the features of the application of the norms of civil procedural
law over time in the modern agenda is given, it seems undeservedly, insufficient attention.
Despite the fact that the operation of legislation in time and space is the basis of theoretical
constructions in law, and law enforcement constantly operates with these categories, in
the theory of procedural law in this part there is no complete clarity, as well as there is no
system of interrelated established views on a number of individual topical issues related
to temporality. Not limited to the problem of reversibility/irreversibility of the operation of
the law, which is generally accepted in the theory of law, the author addresses the logical
and epistemological boundaries of the concept of “change of civil procedural law”, analyzes
extraordinary cases of changes in legislation, examines the criterion “the moment of the
commission of procedural actions”. In conclusion, the author notes that the same normative
act of civil procedural law may have not one, but several temporal characteristics. Variants
of this multiplicity may be different. However, in the science of civil procedural law they
are not actually studied.

Keywords: temporality; relevance of procedural law; changes in legislation; procedural
actions; retroactive force of the law; acts of abstract interpretation of the law.

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Information about the author

V.G. Golubtsov (Perm, Russia) – Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the
Department of Business Law, Civil and Arbitration Procedure, Perm State University,
Judge of the Seventeenth Arbitration Court of Appeal (3, Bldg. 5 Genkel St., Perm,
614068, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]).

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