Application of Labor Law Principles by Russian Courts
- Authors: Kazakova M.V.1
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Affiliations:
- North-West Branch, Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev
- Issue: No 11 (2025)
- Pages: 71-80
- Section: Private law (civil law) studies
- Published: 25.11.2025
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2072-909X/article/view/360066
- ID: 360066
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The current stage of economic and socio-legal development of society dictates the need to use all possible means of legal regulation of social relations. Meanwhile, the courts’ appeal to such primary legal regulators as principles of law is very sporadic.
As a result of the analysis of existing points of view on the legal nature of the principles of law and judicial practice, the following conclusions are drawn in the work: 1) the principles of law have normative content; 2) principles of law can be used to determine the direction, methods, criteria of reasoning and legal justification for a law enforcement decision in cases of interpretation of legal norms, overcoming the uncertainty of legal norms, conflicts and gaps in the legal regulation of labor relations; 3) the abstract nature of the principles of law is not an obstacle to their application; the principles can be specified through the identification of constructive elements in each of them – imperatives.
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Marina V. Kazakova
North-West Branch, Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev
Author for correspondence.
Email: kmv1407@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0000-9480-6280
Candidate of Science (Law), Associate Professor at the Civil Law Department, Retired Judge.
Russian Federation, St. PetersburgReferences
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