Annotation

The article is devoted to the constitutional and legal analysis of the use of precedent in making court decisions. The study is based on the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Fed-eration, which do not provide for the possibility of using judicial practice (precedent) to justify decisions on specific cases. The norms of the resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Rus-sian Federation and the amendments to the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federa-tion and the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation adopted at its request are consid-ered, to a certain extent allowing the use of precedent that contradict the constitutional norms and other norms of the same codes. As a result, a proposal has been formulated for a possible way out of a situation where the use of a precedent conflicts with the Basic Law of the State.