Legal means of implementing the principle of procedural economy in civil proceedings

The article, based on a comprehensive analysis of current national legislation and legal approaches used in the European Union, considers legal means of implementing the principle of procedural economy in civil proceedings. The relevance of the topic is due to the need to increase the efficiency of civil proceedings in martial law. The object of the study is social relations in which the principle of procedural economy in civil proceedings is implemented. The subject of the article is the state of regulatory regulation of the principle of procedural economy in civil proceedings. The methodological basis is formal-logical, comparative-legal, retrospective-comparative, statistical methods, and the method of comparative jurisprudence. It is noted that procedural economy is understood as a historically and socially conditioned complex phenomenon of civil procedural law, which simultaneously represents the principle of civil process, the purpose of which is to ensure the reduction of time, labor and financial costs of subjects of civil process in the consideration and resolution of the case. Legal phenomena considered as legal means have regulatory potential, are distinguished by real applicability, their use leads to the achievement of socially significant results, which expresses the essence of the special scientific approach to the study of law, which is defined as instrumental. Legal means of implementing the principle of procedural economy in civil process are characterized by an independent subject and specific research methods. Legal means of implementing procedural economy is defined as a dynamic system of legal forms, means and measures, as well as their aggregates, the action and interaction of which is aimed at implementing the goal of civil proceedings. Legal means are a set of regulatory provisions, institutions, techniques and the activities of legal entities regarding their implementation, aimed at achieving legal goals, which are provided by the state and perform specific functions that are determined by the intended purpose and scope of implementation.