Given the established monopoly of the bar to represent the interests of participants to a case before the judicial authorities of Ukraine, increasingly important and relevant becomes the ability of legal entities and individuals to protect their rights and interests personally, in particular, when an economic dispute is to be resolved. The purpose of the article is to study and analyze the changes which have occurred to the legal and regulatory framework of the institute of representation after adoption of the amended Code of Economic Procedure of Ukraine (hereinafter – CEP of Ukraine), and also the court practice formed by the newly established Supreme Court, as well as theoretical and practical opportunities for representation of interests of legal entities and individuals in the economic process. The article establishes that the essence of the category of “self-representation” is not new to the science of economic process, but relevant changes to the economic procedure legislation will mark a decisive end to the discussion on the legal nature of a legal entity’s body, and will allow providing a legal mechanism for implementation of a legal entity’s procedural capacity. For the economic procedure legislation, the category of “self-representation” is a novel, however, this does not mean that such a legal phenomenon did not exist before relevant amendments have been adopted. In fact, self-representation is a personal participation of subjects of law as participants to a case in the course of economic dispute resolution by court. Thus, as provided for by Part 3, Art. 56 of the CEP of Ukraine, a legal entity may participate in a case through its CEO or a member of its executive body authorized to act on its behalf according to law, the charter and regulations. The author comes to the conclusion that an individual having full legal age, intention and sufficient knowledge may independently represent his/her interests in the economic process. Furthermore, in certain cases stipulated by law respective functions may also be exercised by a minor, which is naturally associated with the granting of full civil capacity and/or ensues from the specifics of economic relations to which the individual concerned is a party.

List of legal documents 
 

Legislation 
1. Hospodarskyi protsesualnyi kodeks Ukrainy [Commercial Procedural Code of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 6 lystopada 1991 r. № 1798-XII. URL: http:// zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1798-12 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
2. Konstytutsiia Ukrainy [Constitution of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 28 chervnia 1996 r. № 254k/96-VR. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/254%D0%BA/96-%D0%B2%D1%80 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 
3. Tsyvilnyi kodeks Ukrainy [The Civil Code of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 16 sichnia 2003 r. № 435-IV. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/435-15 (accessed: 15.05.2018) (in Ukrainian). 

Cases 
4. Postanova Verkhovnogo Sudu vid 13 bereznia 2018 r. № 910/23346/16 accessed 15 May 2018 (in Ukrainian). 
5. Rishennia Konstytutsiinogo Sudu Ukrainy u spravi za konstytutsiinym zvernenniam hromadianyna Holovania I. V. shchodo ofitsiinoho tlumachennia polozhen statti 59 Konstytutsii Ukrainy (sprava pro pravo na pravovu dopomohu) vid 30 veresnia 2009 r. № 23-rp/2009. Visnyk Konstytutsiinoho sudu Ukrainy. 2009. № 6. St. 32 (in Ukrainian). 
 

Bibliography 
 

Authored books 
6. Bychkova S, Tsyvilnyi protsesualnyi pravovyi status osib, yaki berut uchast u spravakh pozovnoho provadzhennia [Civil Procedural Legal Status of Persons Involved in Cases of Litigation] (Atika 2011) (in Ukrainian). 
7. Nersesov N, Izbrannye trudy po predstavitelstvu i tsennym bumaham v hrazhdanskom prave [Selected Works on Representation and Securities in Civil Law] (Statut 2000) (in Russian). 
8. Riasentsev V, Predstavitelstvo i sdelki v sovremennom hrazhdanskom prave [Representation and Transactions in Modern Civil Law] (Statut 2006) (in Russian). 
9. Rieznikova V, Pravove rehuliuvannia poserednytstva u sferi hospodariuvannia (teoretychni aspekty) [Legal Regulation of Mediation in the Field of Economics (Theoretical Aspects)] (Vyd-vo Khmelnytskoho un-tu upravlinnia ta prava 2010) (in Ukrainian). 

Thesis abstracts 
10. Rossylna O, ‘Predstavnytstvo v hospodarskomu protsesi Ukrainy’ [‘Representation in Commercial Procedure of Ukraine’] (avtoref dys kand yuryd nauk, Kyivskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni Tarasa Shevchenka 2015) (in Ukrainian). 

Blogs 
11. Overchuk S, ‘Velyka Palata VS rozmezhuvala samopredstavnytstvo yurydychnoi osoby ta predstavnytstvo yii advokatom’ [‘The Grand Chamber of the Interior Distinguished Between Self-representing a Legal Entity and Representation by its Lawyer’] (in Ukrainian).