| Abstract [eng] |
The service of documents is a procedural action executed and confirmed in the way and form established by law, whereby the court offers an addressee to get acquainted with content of the served document. Specific rules on the service of documents exist to ensure that a person will certainly receive a document and information, and guarantee a person’s right to defend his interest in the process. The right to fair trial demands that every litigant should have timely notice of any proceeding affecting his interests and reasonable opportunity to respond. Failure to give due notice normally deprive the legitimacy of any process and this means that the failure to serve process where service of process is required is a failure of a conception of proper procedure in litigation. The main aim of the paper is to scrutinize the main basic aspects and main problems of service of documents in the civil procedure, to describe every method of delivery of procedural documents, provided in the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Lithuania, to review judicial precedents, existing doctrine, to identify the most common problems the courts, lawyers usually deal with applying the rules regulating service of documents. Moreover author raises the most common problems the courts usually deal with applying the law regulating service of documents. In the paper gives a wide description of definition and conception of service of documents, a brief review of technological influence on civil procedure, etc. |
