The fundamental principles of civil procedure and the reasonableness of the time of a trial

Abstract

In the article "the fundamental principles of civil procedure" and " the principles of civil procedural law" are considered as synonyms. They are understood as normatively fixed requirements that reflect the values of civil procedural law, reproduce the standards of fair trial and determine the procedure of a trial. Such requirements should be pursued by the court and other participants of civil procedure because they have general, stable and imperative nature and perform regulatory and interpretative functions in relation to ordinary rules of civil procedural law. The possibility to classify the requirement about "reasonableness of the time of a trial" as an interdisciplinary principle of judicial procedure is called into question because the lack of a unified approach to its regulation. Taking into account the provisions of the current procedural legislation and the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the author proposes to interpret this requirement in three ways: 1) as a convention requirement arising from para. 1 art. 6 ECHR; 2) as a requirement for a general time of a trial, which constitutes an indicator of the effectiveness of protection of violated, unrecognized or disputed rights, freedoms and interests (p. 10 p. 3 art. 2 CPC); 3) as a requirement for the time limits of procedural actions in specific cases (art. 121 of the CPC). At the same time, as a requirement for a general time of a trial "the reasonableness of the time of a trial" is an evaluative concept. It cannot be understood as a fundamental principle of civil procedure. In its ontological nature, it is a legal axiom that reproduces the ideal model for the administration of justice and considered to be a tool for realization of the task of timely trial.