title: Defendant’s bad faith as a basis for the court’s non-application of limitation of action
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metadata.value: Vlasov, Anatoly A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Dvalishvili, Lika Z.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-02-09T15:35:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-02-09T15:35:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Vlasov, Anatoly A., Lika Z. Dvalishvili. 2021. “Defendant’s bad faith as a basis for the court’s non-application of limitation of action”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 1056– 1068.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2021.415
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/34794
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The subject of this study is an analysis of possible changes to action limitation period norms
  of the Russian Civil Code in light of the introduction of good faith as a fundamental principle
  of the legal regulation of civil relations. The issue involves the non-application of limitation
  of action by courts as a result of the defendant’s actions that are incompatible with good
  faith. Since, on the one hand, limitation of action has been established in order to protect the
  defendant from untimely, belated, and sometimes unfair claims by the plaintiff, and, on the
  other hand, the defendant’s reference to omitting the statute of limitations completely deprives
  the plaintiff of the protection of his rights and legal interests violated by the defendant in
  bad faith. The goal of legal regulation is to find a solution that provides an optimal fair
  balance between the interests of the conflicting parties. In this regard, the authors propose a
  compromise model that presupposes the establishment of the degree of the defendant’s bad
  faith and, at the same time, takes into account the plaintiff ’s capability to file a lawsuit within
  the limitation period. The decisions of Russian courts on the refusal of courts to apply the
  limitation of actions due to the defendant’s bad faith are examined in this article. Also, the
  re-qualifying of a disputable transaction as void in consequence of the gross abuse of the
  right by the defendant is analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the mandatory nature of
  the Civil Code norms providing limitation of action: in order to protect the plaintiff from
  the defendant’s dishonest actions and to ensure uniformity of legal regulation meeting the
  interests of justice, it is proposed to legalize agreements on increasing the limitation period,
  taking into account, however, the need to protect the interests of the weaker party to the
  contract.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 12; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: non-application of limitation of action
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bad faith of the defendant
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gross unfairness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agreements to increase the limitation period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: estoppel
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a fair balance of parties’ interests
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Defendant’s bad faith as a basis for the court’s non-application of limitation of action
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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