Optimization of civil proceeding has been an urgent problem at any stage of judicial reform for a long time. The variations of the optimization category have also determined the variations of its manifestation in various areas of ensuring the optimal course of administering justice in civil cases. In this aspect, optimization criteria and the limits of its implementation are of great importance. In the practical aspect it is most effectually to refer to the optimization of the civil form of action as an optimization of the procedural order of administering justice in civil cases. The following requirements for democracy, the viability of the procedure for administering justice, science-based schemes are of great importance for determining the directions for optimizing civil proceedings. In this regard, the problem of increasing the efficiency of justice by the power enhancement of the court for self-control becomes urgent. While analyzing them we can distinguish a limited number of the norms of civil procedural law that regulate the powers of the court for self-control. Therefore, if there are reasonable grounds, the trial court is prevented to correct procedural irregularities committed by this court. In the aspect of ensuring the optimization of civil proceedings, the issues of the optimal using evaluation categories are becoming increasingly important. The availability of a great number of evaluative categories in a normative act does not allow one to take a proper assessment of the circumstances of a civil case.