Problems of Compensation of Losses in Breach of Civil Law Obligations

Relevance. One of the basic approaches for civil law is to allow the injured party to claim full compensation for losses, including in case of violation of civil law obligations. The widespread use of this approach is based on universal human notions of reasonableness and fairness of restoring the property sphere of the injured party at the expense of the party that committed the violation. Compensation of losses plays a crucial role among the means of protection of subjective civil rights provided for by Article 12 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

The purpose of the study is to develop theoretical provisions that determine the features of the implementation of the principle of full compensation for damages in breach of obligations at the current stage of development of market economy and legislation of the Russian Federation.

Objectives: to identify the problems associated with the implementation of the principle of full compensation for losses in the civil law of the Russian Federation; to determine the features of ensuring the balance of interests in the compensation of losses; to determine the directions of further development of legal regulation of the issues under consideration.

Methodology. When writing the work, dialectical-materialistic method, systematic method, methods of analysis and synthesis, formal-legal method were used.

The results of the research are of a theoretical and applied nature and are aimed at improving the quality of legal regulation of civil legal relations.

The conclusions made in the article are of a discussion nature, aimed at continuing the research in the frame-work of the stated subject matter, development of basic principles that allow to uniformly resolve the problems associated with the realization of the rights to full compensation for damages for breach of obligations, including in a complex system of relations between individual participants of civil turnover. The article is a continuation of the author's scientific research on issues related to the problems of civil liability.  

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