“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 36 (2025), pages 704–712.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2025-36-704-712

Lysiuk Yaroslav
The System of Constitutional Principles of Civil Proceedings: Issues of Theory and Practice of Enshrining

The article is devoted to the study of the system of constitutional principles of civil proceedings. 

The author analyses the Constitution of Ukraine and foreign countries and identifies the common and distinctive features of the regulatory framework and the system of constitutional principles of civil justice. The author substantiates that for the national legal system, the key aspect in the formation of the system of constitutional principles of civil justice is to identify those provisions which have the properties of the principles of procedural activity. 

The principles, affecting the main issues of justice in civil cases, establish requirements for its organisation, define the powers of the parties to the process and the content of procedural activity. This determines the fundamental basis of the principles. As fundamental rules, the principles of civil justice should be considered as normative positions.

As one of the possible directions and criteria for the formation of the system of principles under consideration, the author names the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The author proves that the system of civil procedure principles includes: the principles of fair proceedings, in particular, adversariality, discretion and equality of procedural rights and obligations of the parties and others.

The author argues that it is necessary to update the constitutional positions on justice. The most promising solution is a legislative solution that distinguishes between the principles of justice and the principles of the process, as well as the principles that determine the initial parameters of procedural activity in the field of other types of court proceedings based on the use of a lawsuit as a universal procedural remedy. 

Key words: system, principles, constitutional principles of civil proceedings, justice, civil procedural law.

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