Civil procedural obligations of parties in legal proceedings

Civil procedural duties are elements of the civil procedural status of persons participating in legal proceedings. The nature of civil procedural obligations of the parties is determined by the nature of civil procedural relations. The civil procedural duty of the party is a measure of the necessary behavior of the participants in the civil process, which is designed to ensure the implementation of certain procedural actions or refrain from their implementation for the protection of rights and legal interests and to guarantee a fair, impartial, timely consideration and resolution of a civil case. The signs of civil procedural obligations of the parties include: 1) is an element of the procedural status of a person; 2) normatively defined in the provisions of civil procedural legislation; 3) aimed at protecting rights and legitimate interests; 3) are individual (applies to the parties or the plaintiff or defendant separately) or general (applies to all participants in the case); 4) aimed at ensuring effective civil justice. The civil procedural obligations of the parties in a lawsuit can be grouped according to several criteria. First, these are general duties that belong to all participants in the case. For the participants in the case, the civil procedural legislation establishes uniform limits of procedural rights and obligations. Special civil procedural duties are duties that are inherent only to the parties or individually to the plaintiff or defendant. An important place in the formation of the content of the procedural obligations of the parties belongs to the general principles of civil proceedings. Understanding this connection allows for a deeper understanding of the meaning of each duty and ensures the effectiveness of civil proceedings. The consequences of non-fulfillment of civil procedural obligations by the parties are defined in the civil procedural legislation. These are: application of measures of procedural coercion; bringing to legal liability; consideration of the case in the absence of the relevant party to the case; leaving a complaint, application, request without consideration or their return.