The Arbitrazh Court as a Subject of a Procedural Legal Relationship

The author makes an attempt to analyze the status of an arbitrazh court that enters into a procedural legal relationship with the participants during consideration of a particular case. The study was conducted on the basis of both general theoretical approaches and approaches developed by the science of civil procedure law to the essence of legal relations and civil procedural legal relations. Taking into account the place and role of the arbitrazh court in the system of judicial authorities, the work identifies specific features of this subject of procedural legal relations. In the author’s opinion, the fact that judicial power is exercised by the arbitrazh court through a procedural legal relationship is of particular importance for the characterization of the arbitrazh court. The status of the arbitrazh court as a judicial authority, in turn, determines the form of its procedural activity. Through the performance of procedural actions, the arbitrazh tribunal exercises its powers. The question of the competence of the arbitrazh court is considered as its characteristic, which determines the ability to become a subject of a procedural legal relationship and, at the same time, to act as the basis for its entry into a procedural legal relationship. The author analyzed legal institutions, as a result of which, when considering a particular case, two arbitrazh courts acquire mutual procedural rights and obligations.