The Reform of Civil Legislation on Legal Liability

The article is devoted to the research of the institute of civil liability through the prism of recoding of the civil legislation of Ukraine. Particular attention is paid to the experience of a number of European Union countries in reforming civil legislation. The study used the following methods: dialectical, formal and legal, comparative legal. In the process of future recoding of the civil legislation of Ukraine, it is proposed to focus the attention of the expert community on the following problems: defining a system of non-contractual obligations; overcoming the dominance of blanket norms in the main act of civil law; revision of fundamental approaches to terms of exemption from civil liability; full revision of the rules governing liability for breach of monetary obligations; the need to enshrine pre-contractual liability rules; the implementation of institution of collective redress in substantive civil law; rethinking of approaches to the regulation of conditioning obligations.