The effectiveness of judicial procedures depends to a large extent on the availability of mechanisms to enable the parties to a legal conflict to choose how to resolve it. One of these mechanisms is the mediation procedure, widely used in many countries, and legally stipulated in Russia in 2010. In recent years, a wide interest in the mediation procedure has created prerequisites for making changes to the legislation, which, unfortunately, are formulated without sufficient theoretical research based on studies of a proper degree of representativeness. The author studies the procedures of judicial mediation in a view of constitutional frameworks of proceedings, in accordance with the changes proposed by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in their legislative regulation. The methodological basis of the study was focused on the dialectical approach and the principles of objectivity and comparability of a set of methods of scientific knowledge, analysis and synthesis, comparative law and others, ensuring