Reorganization of city (district) court structure & function in view of the Grand Jury Institution Reform

• Vereschagina A.V.

  Сandidate of legal sciences, associate professor head of the Department of Criminal Law disciplines of the Institute of Law
  Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
  Vladivostok. Russia

• Omelyanenko M.E.

  Judge’s assistant of the Arbitration Court of Primorsky Region
  Vladivostok. Russia

This article is devoted to the investigation of the institution of the jury trial and the organization of its functioning in the district and city courts. In connection with the expansion of the jurisdiction of the jury, there are significant organizational changes in the district and city courts. It is this issue at the moment is the most relevant and significant. The aim of the work is the legal modeling of the organization of work and functioning of district and city courts in connection with the expansion of jury trials jurisdiction. In the course of the study, the activity of the jury trials courts was conducted in the supreme courts of the republics, regional (regional) courts, courts of federal cities, the court of the autonomous region, courts of autonomous regions and identified the existing difficulties in their functioning, and proposals were put forward to address them. The result of this scientific and practical research was the formulation and justification of the necessary transformation of the activities of district (city) courts with a view to their adaptation to the application of the contract with the participation of the court assessors. This study was conducted using general methodological principles of cognition, such as: objectivity, systemic, dialectical counter-speech. When analyzing the texts of normative legal acts, the methods of hermeneutics and formal logic were used.

Keywords: Judicial reform, judicial system, jurisdiction, jury trial, district (city) courts, assistant judge, clerk of the court.