The State Duma today, July 3, reviewed the amendments to the draft law on cassation and appellate courts of general jurisdiction, which are designed to protect the interests of citizens. The authors of the amendment are the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and the Chairman of the Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko. Together with them, the additions were worked by the head of the Duma committee on state construction and legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov and the head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Andrei Klishas. The bill, which was approved by the lower house in its first reading in February, was submitted by the Supreme Court. The document implies the organization of separate supra-regional cassation and appellate courts of general jurisdiction and determines their powers, the order of formation and activities. The law prescribes the creation of 5 appellate and 9 cassation courts operating in judicial districts, each of which includes several regions. "The amendment introduced today offers a new location for the appellate courts and cassation courts. This will take into account the characteristics of the regions: their economic activity, transport and infrastructure components, the availability of a law school, "- assured Vyacheslav Volodin, transmit" Days. RU". The appellate courts will work with complaints that have not entered into force by decisions and cases on new and newly discovered circumstances. Appeal instance on the acts adopted by the district court or justice of the peace, remains the same. Higher "rank" - cassation courts. They are inferior to both appellate courts and the courts of the subject, and district and also world judges within the cassation court district. In the competence of higher authorities - claims that came into force decisions and cases for new and newly discovered circumstances. The proposed changes continue the judicial reform that has been carried out in our country since the 1990s, the head of the Duma committee on state construction and legislation. According to him, the separation of the appellate and cassation instances is a significant systemic change. "We have already carried out such a reform in the arbitration system, and it has had a positive effect.

Consideration of appellate and cassation complaints and submissions to judicial acts will not be carried out in the same court that considered the case in the first instance, "- said Pavel Krasheninnikov. This initiative will add independence and independence to the courts, reduce corruption risks and regional influence.

It is expected that the first cassation court will be located in Saratov, the second - in Moscow, the third - in St. Petersburg. The ninth on the list is Vladivostok. In the northern capital will also appeal court, as in Kaluga and Sochi. The fifth will be placed in Novosibirsk.