Constitutional right of citizens to participate in the administration of justice: some problems of development in the Russian Federation at the present stage

Abstract

This study is devoted to the implementation of the constitutional right of citizens to participate in the administration of justice in the Russian Federation. The relevance of the topic is seen in view of the continuing problems associated with the legal regulation of the mechanism for attracting citizens to such participation. The paper uses formal-legal, system-structural, predictive methods, as well as methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, dialectical method. The author examines the controversial issues related to the implementation of the constitutional right to participate in the administration of justice, the problems of its implementation by citizens of the Russian Federation at the present time.The novelty of the research is manifested in the identification of the main problems of the realization of the constitutional right of citizens to participate in the administration of justice, as well as in the author's proposals for their solution. In particular, the study analyzes the problems existing in the functioning of the institutions of arbitration and jurors, evaluates the proposals of the legal community on the possible expansion of the scope of jurors. The author comes to conclusions about the need to make adjustments to the legal regulation of the procedure for involving arbitration assessors in the judicial process, taking measures aimed at changing the attitude of citizens to participate in the administration of justice; about the need to make adjustments to the legal regulation of the procedure for the formation of a jury panel, the premature expansion of the jurisdiction of criminal cases to a court with the participation of jurors and the inexpediency of extending the scope of the activities of jurors in civil disputes.