Justice: Results of the Year

During the plenary session of the Supreme Court, representatives of the judiciary summed up the results of the work last year. President Vadim Krasnoselsky, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legislation, Defense, Security, Peacekeeping, Law Enforcement, Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms Grigory Dyachenko, heads of the Prosecutor's Office, Constitutional and Arbitration Courts, city and district courts, representatives of the government participated in the discussion.

Two reports were presented on the consideration of civil and criminal cases. The first in the past year was considered 19496, the second - 1883. It was once again stated that the burden on judges increased. In particular, with regard to civil cases, in one person administering justice in 2017, there were 363 cases. Particular attention, according to the chairman of the Supreme Court Vladimir Rymar, representatives of the judiciary community applied for the resolution of labor disputes, as well as reducing the time for consideration of court cases. However, this does not always depend on people in robes - there are objective circumstances that unreasonably stretch lawsuits in time.

As for legislative activity, last year, from the side of the Supreme Court as a subject of legislative law, it was not too active - the Plenum of the Supreme and Arbitration Courts introduced only one law-in-draft to the parliament.

As part of the final plenum, its participants separately discussed the issue of parole for persons in prison. Such cases were examined by the judicial authorities 62, and only in 11 cases the applications were satisfied. While the commission for pardoning on this issue received more than 700 applications.

21 judges from 58 last year were brought to various kinds of disciplinary responsibility, while four people were dismissed, including the former chairman of the Rybnitsa City Court. As Vladimir Rymar assured, this practice of strict demand for quality and efficiency of the representatives of Themis will continue this year.

Traditionally different points of view on various issues of jurisprudence, the norms of the current legislation, the reform of the judiciary were voiced by the republic's prosecutor Anatoly Guretsky and the head of the Supreme Court Vladimir Rymar. Their frankness in the statements turned the final judicial plenum not into a routine event, but into a kind of "brainstorming", groping for ways to improve the situation in the judicial branch of power. President Vadim Krasnoselsky also joined in polemic with his arguments and arguments in the final word.