The flexibility of the civil procedure forms in the Russian civil practice

This article analyzes the principles of civil procedural form such as flexibility and versatility. The author comes to the conclusion of the necessity to distinguish between two concepts of the "features of the civil procedural form" and "principles of civil procedural." In addition, it is noted that the flexibility of the civil procedural form is manifested in the domestic legislation in the following way: 1) protection of the rights of other types of civil procedure on the basis of claim form; 2) the introduction of a wide range of discretionary powers of the court to the law. As a result, the flexibility of the civil procedural form is defined as the possibility of civil parties to influence on the selection of optimal legal proceedings arising from the circumstances of a particular civil case and to protect the rights and legitimate interests of individuals and legal entities.