Showing posts with label Russian public law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian public law. Show all posts

Saturday 25 February 2017

On-line court proceedings coming soon...


A week ago Russian Parliament voted for pushing the Internet further in the litigation to make it more transparent. A draft to let all types of proceedings, including even criminal one, to be transmitted on the web site on-line, passed the lower Chamber of the Parliament. According to the draft, some general requirements should be fulfilled for the filming namely keeping order in the courtroom and prohibiting interfering the procedure. The main restriction would apparently be the necessity to get the court permission for shooting, the latter being reluctant for being filmed. 

Tuesday 7 February 2017

A further step to electronic litigation

Due to some amendments and new acts as well as some improvements in the court system Internet site it is now possible to bring an action on-line not only in an Arbitrage court (which is mainly for business claims) but in General Jurisdictions courts also (which is for non-business disputes). An electronic action should be signed be an electronic signature, which can be made within 2 days for about 2000 rubles (something like $40), so it undoubtfully simplifies getting court protection for a broken right for anyone suing more than once. Although there are some weird soft bugs (for instance, nowadays the system accepts only PDF documents which have been previously printed and then scanned), they tend to be solved and anyway it solves a lot of time for lawyers and businesses.

Sunday 29 January 2017

Human cloning in Russian law


Here is the link to my paper on www.Academia.edu on a quite controversial topic that is possibility of human cloning in Russian law. One should bear in mind that may ‘cloning’ not only mean ‘making a copy’ in a Dolly the sheep manner but also ‘editing’ the genome in therapy purposes. The article tends to prove its legality in Russia.