Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure 

of the Saratov State Law Academy 

The article is devoted to a research of the concept of “conscientious behavior” in civil legal proceedings. Conscientious behavior plays the main role as basic factor which makes influence for achievement of the goal of civil procedure: protection of rights and legitimate interests of parties and subjects. However, there is no fixed term of “abuse of rights” or “conscientious behavior” in the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, and under author’s opinion that affects for possibility of applying measures of responsibility to unfair participants in civil proceedings. Defining term “good conscience” in law and in civil procedure it is necessary to take a look for explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court. The author distinguishes basic criteria that can help to estimate behavior of a participant of civil proceedings: honesty, economy and legitimacy as criteria for conscientious behavior, and determines their maintenance. The measures are proposed to prevent unfair conduct of participants in civil proceedings. Such measures include extrajudicial settlement of disputes, simplification of legal proceedings, conducting of the preliminary judicial meeting, establishing measures of property and unproperty liability and others. The author also puts accent for necessity of legislative consolidation of sanctions for misconduct. 

Keywords: civil proceedings; conscientious behavior; participant of civil proceedings; responsibility; dishonesty.

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Information about the author 

Solovieva T.V. (Saratov, Russia) – Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure of the Saratov State Law Academy (410056, Saratov, Chernyshevsky St., 104, room 308; e-mail: [email protected]). 

Recommended citation 

Solovieva T.V. K voprosu o dobrosovestnom povedenii v grazhdanskom sudoproizvodstve [To the Issue of Conscientious Behavior in Civil Proceedings]. Вестник гражданского процесса = Herald of Civil Procedure, 2017, no. 4, p. 62–78. (In Russian) DOI: 10.24031/2226-0781-2017-7-4-62-78