“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 35 (2024), pages 525–534.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2024-35-525-534

Tymchenko Hennadii
Some problematic issues of the institute of securing evidence in civil proceedings

The article examines the place of the rules on securing evidence in the structure of proving the circumstances of civil cases, the concept and procedural form of securing evidence in civil proceedings. The author substantiates that adversarial and dispositive principles determine the parties' free disposal of their rights, the burden of proof of their claims and objections, equal opportunities to prove their legal position before the court, and elements of judicial guidance in civil proceedings. Taken together, these principles determine the specifi cs of the nature of the procedural activity to establish the circumstances of civil cases. The author argues that the procedures for securing evidence are an important element of the mechanism for exercising the parties' evidentiary rights, in particular, the right to collect and present evidence. Due to various circumstances, the necessary evidence is not always at the disposal of the parties. At the same time, the possibility to resort to securing evidence corresponds to the general duty of the court to judicially manage the process. The provision of evidence in civil proceedings can be legitimately considered as an activity of the parties aimed at obtaining the necessary evidence in compliance with the conditions provided for by law and as an activity of the court that assists in the collection and presentation of evidence. The Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine as amended in 2017 expanded the list of requirements that must be met by an application for securing evidence. The legislator, regulating the procedure for securing evidence (deadlines for fi ling such an application, peculiarities of the court proceedings and consequences of initiating the securing of evidence), sees its implementation exclusively in the claim proceedings. A certain novelty of the Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine as amended in 2017 is the possibility to use the institute of securing evidence in the course of consideration of a case by an international commercial arbitration or arbitral tribunal.

Key words: provision of evidence, proof, means of proof, civil proceedings, judicial procedures.

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