The adversarial principle in the Code of Civil Procedure of the Republic of Belarus: conceptual issues of understanding and legal regulation
Abstract
The author of the article analyses how successfully the Code of Civil Procedure of the Republic of Belarus reflects the essence of the adversarial principle and provides guarantees for its implementation. The study is conducted on the basis of comparison with the legal regulation of the adversarial principle in the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus and the Economic Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus. As a result, a new version of Art. 14 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Republic of Belarus was proposed, and some recommendations were made on the further development of the adversarial nature of civil proceedings, in particular, on the mandatory holding of court hearings to resolve a number of specific issues of legal proceedings, the need for detailed regulation of the procedure for disclosure by interested parties of evidences they have, etc.
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