LEGAL PRESUMPTIONS AS MEANS OF OVERCOMING LEGAL GAPS Zabrodin Dmitriy Mikhailovich, posatgraduate student. <...> Place of study: Moscow state law university named after O.E.Kutafin (MSLA). <...> Email: dmzabrodin@gmail.com Annotation Task: The purpose of this research is to examine the potential of legal presumptions as self-sufficient and effective means of overcoming legal gaps. <...> The author explains the importance of the matter with the fact that sometimes legal gaps are not very obvious. <...> Besides, formal application of law allows stating the lack of legal gaps in certain cases. <...> However, this formal approach can conceal a number of legal matters that had not been taken into account by the legislator regarding this issue. <...> This being said, legal gaps can actually be overcome through enforcement of law by using legal presumptions, explicitly or implicitly provided by law. <...> Model: The research uses general scientific methods (functional and logical methods using analysis and synthesis), as well as specific legal methods (formal legal method, comparative legal method, etc.). <...> Conclusions: In our opinion, legal presumptions can be used as effective means of overcoming legal gaps, and they also have a self-sufficient role. <...> Legal presumptions can be effectively used at the moment until the discovered legal gap is directly filled, and their use usually does not raise doubts for law enforcement authorities. <...> Scope of research: Due to his professional occupation, in this research the author examined relations under bankruptcy law. <...> However, the author is convinced that similar cases can be resolved in other branches of law and legislation, which is confirmed by works of other scholars and experts. <...> As examples, the article describes the presumption of lack of conflict regarding selection of a person reprОsОnting thО НОbtor’s mОmbОrs in bКnФruptМв proМООdings and the presumption of the committee of creditors acting in thО intОrОsts oП Кll thО НОbtor’s МrОНitors. <...> Originality/value: At the time of preparing this article the author had not discovered works specifically dedicated to the potential of legal presumptions as means of overcoming legal gaps. <...> Задача: Целью проведения настоящего исследования является попытка автора рассмотреть вопрос о потенциале <...>