Ensuring Good Faith in Arbitration Proceedings

This article is devoted to some aspects of ensuring good faith in arbitration proceedings in civil cases within the framework of the arbitration procedure in terms of securing rights and legitimate interests of third parties who are not parties to arbitration with due regard to the reform of the arbitration courts law. The article analyzes the problem that takes place in law enforcement practice when parties involved in civil transactions to the detriment of rights and legally protected interests of third parties resort to arbitration proceedings and confirm an artificially created debt arising from a non-existing contractual obligation. On the basis of the scientific doctrine and jurisprudence analysis and with due regard to legal stances of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the author proposes a set of measures aimed at preventing abuse of the right to arbitration proceedings, the content of which is reduced to the introduction of the principle of good faith directly into the norms of arbitration procedure legislation and an obligatory notarial form of the arbitration agreement when the cases are considered by arbitral tribunals set up by the parties to consider a dispute in question.