LEGAL MECHANISM OF THE COURT FEE REFUND IN CASE OF TRIAL COMPLETION WITHOUT ADOPTION OF A JUDGEMENT IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS

The peculiarities of the legal mechanism of returning the court fee in case of completion of civil cases without a court decision are analyzed, issues of these applications practical resolving are considered, as well as suggestions for improving the legal regulation in case of the closure of the proceedings or leaving the application without consideration are proposed. While analyzing examples of case law, it was established that the lack of legislative regulation of the procedure for confirming or denying the existence of grounds for the amount of court fees refund causes a lot of confusion and contradictory solutions to the judiciary in this regard. The position on the impossibility of equalization due to the different procedural nature of leaving without consideration of statements on procedural issues, such as: on providing evidence, on securing a claim, on dismissal of a judge, and leaving without considering a statement of claim as a civil procedural institute, regulated by Art. 257 of CPC of Ukraine are justified. It has been concluded that in case the court finds circumstances that are grounds for the application of the institute of leaving the application without consideration and provided for in Art. 257 of CPS of Ukraine, when considering applications on procedural issues, should apply such a special legal consequence as a return of the application without consideration. It has been established that returning an application on procedural issues without consideration and leaving an application without consideration are completely different legal categories. Return of applications on procedural issues without consideration due to its legal nature is a special basis for the application of the return of the application institute, and therefore the legal consequence of such an application would be considered not filed at all. In this connection, it has been proposed to enshrine in the legislation the provisions on the refund of the court fee in case of return without consideration of the application on procedural issues, for the submission of which such payment was paid.