In the paper, the author concludes that it is inappropriate to regulate the procedural and legal competence of various officials of the prosecutor’s office to initiate a review of judicial acts by the courts of controlling authority. The author examines the issue of the possibility of allocating the prosecutor’s participation in the consideration of civil cases by the courts of controlling authority into an independent, third form of the prosecutor’s participation in civil (arbitrazh) proceedings in the light of both the legislative expansion of the prosecutor’s procedural powers and trends in judicial practice. The author draws attention to the need to clarify in the law the legal form by which the prosecutor’s initiative aimed at reviewing judicial acts is implemented. As a result of the analysis of judicial practice where the courts and the prosecutor assessed the need for the prosecutor’s participation in specific cases in different ways, the author concluded that the correctness of resolving the issue of involving (not involving) the prosecutor to participate in the consideration of a civil case is predetermined by an essential rather than a formal approach to the legal qualification by the court of the substantive requirements under consideration.