PROCEDURAL DIFFICULTIES OF COUNTERCLAIMS

Problems of Legal Regulation of Economic Activities

Abstract

The study analyzes normative provision for a counterclaim as one of the procedural means of the respondent consisting both in simultaneous satisfaction of own requirements to the plaintiff and in protection against the primary claim. Substantial failings and blanks in the regulation of the counterclaim in relation to the court’s proceedings for the adoption and consideration of the counterclaim are revealed. The ways to solve them are offered. The signs which indicate to the complication of the economic process when using a counterclaim are described.