Results of the Discussion of the Draft Code of Civil Procedure of the RSFSR

Abstract

In publishing the major provisions of the draft Code of Civil Procedure of the RSFSR, the editors of Sovetskaia iustitsiia wished to organize a broad exchange of opinions among readers on the most fundamental and controversial problems of Soviet civil procedure. Articles appearing in the press, the speeches at the All-Union Conference to Discuss the Drafts of the RSFSR Civil and Civil Procedure Codes, and the numerous letters received by the editors of this journal and by the Ministry of Justice of the RSFSR bear witness to the broad nature of the discussion. Along with the generally positive evaluation of the draft, the participants in the discussion voiced a number of critical observations and proposals aimed at improving it. Although we cannot deal with all the questions touched upon in the course of the discussion, we shall note the most fundamental of them in the sequence in which their content is dealt with in the draft code.