Primary Models for Implementing the Claims of Joint Creditors

The paper elucidates peculiarities of enforcement of creditors’ joint claims and subsequent recourse claims arising between creditors. Based on domestic and foreign scholarship and Russian judicial practice, the paper determines two main models for the implementation of joint claims. The author concludes that the model of a single joint claim and the model of multiplicity of joint claims, except for theoretical differences, are designed to protect different legal values. These values are associated either with the interest of the debtor in achieving predictability of his legal position and debtor’s protection against increasing disputes with his participation, or with the interest of creditors in exercising their rights independently. The approach in favor of the priority of the creditor who files a claim first developed in judicial practice results in an unjustified termination of the rights of joint creditors and makes it necessary to change this situation in favor of ensuring the access of joint creditors to gaining recovery from the debtor. The relevance of the study is predetermined by insufficient regulation of relations involving joint creditors, which leads to the lack of predictable judicial practice in applying the rules and limiting the legal capabilities of participants in multiplicity of persons on the side of the creditor.

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