adversarial principle

Introduction. The right to judicial protection in one's native language ensures the adversarial nature and transparency of civil proceedings and serves as a guarantee and embodiment of all procedural actions in the administration of justice. However, the system-forming influence of the principle of the state language on the course of legal proceedings is somewhat underestimated in modern judicial practice.

The article considers the specificity of the Russian Federation Constitution enshrined the principle of equality before the courts in relation to the adversarial principle. The author substantiates the idea that this principle has two aspects, expressing its essence: the substantive and procedural. In the material sense, it represents a concretization of the constitutional principle of equality and is largely associated with the provision of formal or de jure equality.