Alekseev Andrey Anatolyevich, Candidate of Sciences (Law), Associate Professor of Civil law and litigation Department, South Ural State University. 149 Kommuny Str., 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia. E-mail: andrey2164@yandex.ru

This article is devoted to the study of simplified forms of civil cases in courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts, as well as prospects for their development in the light of the adoption of the concept of one of the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. The focus here is on the analysis of the ratio of a simplified and writ proceedings, which resulted in the conclusion about the need to save only the first of them. In addition, the author proves the fallacy of attributing absentia to a simplified procedural form, showing its complexity and branching, even relatively traditional form of the limitation of the case. In general, attempts to simplify the civil procedural form is estimated to work as a positive development trend of the domestic law of civil procedure.