Law. Human. Environment

The article is the study of procedures for concentrating evidence in a civil case in the context of optimizing civil procedure. It is substantiated that the civil procedural legislation of many European states has adopted scholarly concepts of concentrating the necessary evidence, thereby modifying the ideas of German and Austrian scholars doing researches on civil procedurein the 19th century. It is argued that the problem of concentrating evidence cannot be solved without the search for appropriate forms of interaction of the fundamental principles of the civil procedure, adversariality and optionality, and of the provisions on the court’s administering the trial and its active authority. The author argues that the time of and the periods for the presentation of evidence play an important part in the formation of an effective civil procedural form of concentrating evidence. The researcher bases himself on the fact that an increasing number of civil procedural obligations, primarily in the field of law of evidence, should be one of the directions for optimizing civil procedure. Establishing civil procedural liability (sanctions) for violation of the procedure for carrying out procedural actions and for failure to fulfill procedural obligations stipulated by law makes for logical coherence of the mechanism of concentrating evidence.

concentrating of evidence, judicial evidence, procedural obligations, civil procedural liability, optimization of civil procedure, principles of civil procedur