Abstract:
Civil justice has an ontological link to the exercise of the judiciary through the administration of justice, the scientific and legal analysis of which is based on the research outlined in this paper. Functional and substantive aspects of understanding of justice were elaborated proceeding form the developments of scientists and the current legislation of Ukraine. It proves that justice is a single, holistic concept, regardless of the type of judicial procedure, the specifics of sectoral judicial procedures, the substantive content of court cases or the procedural features of their consideration. The paper investigates the legislative and scientific approaches to the concept of justice in civil cases. The correlation between the concepts of justice in civil cases and civil proceedings is also developed. It is emphasized that justice encompasses all the procedural activities of a court to consider and resolve a court case in its dynamics and all its manifestations, regardless of its procedural and substantive legal consequences. The research allowed to determine, through the lens of the current legislation of Ukraine and scientific achievements of the procedural science, the features and formulate the original author's definition of the concept of justice in civil cases