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DETERMINING OF THE LAW TO BE APPLIED, IN THE LETTER AND IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW

PROBLEMS OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

L.V. TUMANOVA

L.V. TUMANOVA,

Doctor of the Legal Sciences, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation,

Member of the Higher Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation,

Professor, Department of Judiciary and Law Enforcement Affairs,

Tver State University

In this article, the author proposes for discussion the possibility of establishing an additional

mechanism that will be able to determine the law to be applied at the stage of preparing the

case for trial. This issue is dictated by the fact that it is crucial for the correct and timely

consideration of the case on the merits. The researcher notes that the determination of the law

to be applied in a particular case can be presented in several stages. The first one is to establish

whether there is a legal norm at all which can be applied to the specific circumstances of the

case. The second is the process of interpreting the legal norm in light of the specific factual

circumstances. In this case, at each of the two stages two main methods are applied: the letter

of the law and the spirit of the law, which in the sphere of judicial enforcement are always in

inseparable connection. As a solution to the problem of determining the law to be applied,

the author proposes to use the conclusion of a specialist and appeal for interpretation to the

Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: the law to be applied; preparation of the case for trial; letter and spirit of the law;

clarification of the meaning of the legal norm; expert opinion; consideration of the factual

circumstances of the case; request to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation;

interpretation in the Resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian

Federation.

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Information about the author

L.V. Tumanova (Tver, Russia) – Doctor of the Legal Sciences, Professor, Honored

Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Member of the Higher Qualification Collegium

of Judges of the Russian Federation, Professor, Department of Judiciary and Law

Enforcement Affairs, Tver State University (33 Zheliabova St., Tver, 170100, Russia;

e-mail: [email protected]).

Recommended citation

Tumanova L.V. Opredelenie zakona, podlezhashchego primeneniiu, s uchetom ego

bukvy i dukha [Determining of the Law to Be Applied, in the Letter and in the Spirit of

the Law]. Vestnik grazhdanskogo protsessa – Herald of Civil Procedure, 2022, vol. 12, no. 1,

pp. 40–47. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2022-12-1-40-47

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