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Peace Justice in Russia: the estimation of independence and efficiency

November 26, 2004 09:25

The English version of the report of the Regional public organization «The Nizhniy Novgorod society of human rights» (Nizhniy Novgorod region), prepared in cooperation with the Kazan Human Rights Center (Tatarstan Republic) and with the Regional public organization «Christians against tortures and children's slavery» (Rostov region).
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This report is the result of the work by the project «The Program of Public Activity on Increasing of Independence and Efficiency of Peace Justice», which had been done from the 1st of April 2003 till the 10th of January 2004.

Authors:
N.Tagankina - the head of the project.
S.Velikoredchanin, G.Davletshina, A.Lipatova, V.Nikolaev, M.Harseeva,
P.Chikov, O.Shepeleva - the participants of the project.
A.Grafov - the bookkeeper of the project.

The compositors of the report express great gratitude to the Ministry of the International Development of the Great Britain (DFID), due to financial support of which the project had been carried out; to the British Council, which had rendered methodological and organizational support of the project; to judicial bodies and bodies of judicial community of the Nizhniy Novgorod and Rostov regions and Republic of Tatarstan; to the representative bodies of the Nizhniy Novgorod region and Republic of Tatarstan; to the officials of executive bodies of these subjects of Russian Federation, which had provided the maintenance Judges of the Peace activity.
We express a special gratitude to citizens, J.P., officials and lawyers of the Nizhniy Novgorod and Rostov regions and Republic of Tatarstan, for the civic position showed by their participation in the project. We are also grateful to volunteers who disinterestedly helped the members of the project in questioning and inspection of sites of judges of the peace.

Contents:

Annotation

Introduction

Chapter 1: The procedures and practice of the selection and assignment of Judges of the Peace and their effect on independence and effectiveness of peace justice system.
1.1 Basic international standards of the selection and assignment of judges.
1.2 Federal legislation on the selection and assignment of J.P.
1.3 Local normative acts on the selection and assignment of J.P.
1.4 Practice of selection and assignment of J.P.
1.5 Conclusions.

Chapter 2: Financial, material, technical, informational and administrative maintenance of Judges of the Peace and its influence on independence, efficiency and availability of peace justice.
2.1 Basic international standards in the field of financing, material, technical, informational and administrative maintenance of justice
2.2 Norms of federal legislation on financing, material, technical, informational and administrative maintenance of peace justice
2.3 Local normative acts on financing, material, technical, informational and administrative maintenance of peace justice
2.4 Practice of budgetary procedures on federal and regional levels.
2.5 Location of judges’ of the peace sites.
2.6 Practice of material, technical support of peace justice.
2.7 Quality of an informational provision of J.P.
2.8 Training of J.P.
2.9 Administrative and technical personnel provision of J.P.
2.10 Security of J.P. provision.
2.11 Conclusions.

Chapter 3. An overall estimation of independence and efficiency of peace justice, main problems.

The recommendations on the improvement of the peace justice system in Russia.

Appendices:
1. List of reductions.
2. Methodology and the criteria of researches.
3. Results of questionings and inspections in diagrams.

Annotation

The report presented to your attention is a result of work by the project «The Program of Public Activity on Increasing of Independence and Efficiency of Peace Justice», which had been done from the 1st of April 2003 till the 10th of January 2004.
The project was carried out by the regional public organization «Nizhniy Novgorod society of human rights» (Nizhniy Novgorod region) in cooperation with the Kazan Human Rights Center (Republic of Tatarstan) and the Regional public organization «Christians against tortures and children's slavery» (Rostov region), enjoing financial support of the Ministry of the International Development of the Great Britain (DFID) and methodological and organizational support of the British Council.

The focal point of the researches by the project is the realization of the right of the great masses of society to access the justice which is carried out by the means of recently created in Russia institute of the peace justice (the letters of Article 14 of the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights and the Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights).

In this report the members of the project estimate independence and efficiency of the institute of peace justice, as the basic guarantee of the realization of the right of the great masses of society to access the justice.

The report contains the results of researching and analytical work on the overall estimation of independence and efficiency of the peace justice for present (Chapter 1 and 2). Special attention in the report was paid to the analysis of the problems, which appears to become a drag on the further development and improvement of this new institute of justice (Chapter 3), and to the drawing up the recommendations for resolutions of these problems.

According to the results of the researches, one of the main directions for improvement of peace justice is the alteration of a legislative base and decision-making practice on the questions connected with independence and efficiency of peace justice.

The list of public actions, carried out by the officials of the project in Nizhniy Novgorod and Rostov region and in the Republic of Tatarstan with an aim to attract attention of the publicity and authorities to the problems of peace justice, is also attached to the report, and the efficiency of these actions is also estimated.

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