The combination of acts taken in appellate, cassation and supervisory authorities, constitutes: 1) court rulings, propelling the case (rulings of intermediate character; rulings of transition); 2) final judicial act of a higher court (based on the results of the examination of the case) and final ruling that complete the process without considering the merits of the case. The article notes the violation of rules of higher courts autonomy of judicial acts, which, inter alia, is reflected in the terminology used to refer to the acts of the court. The rulings of a transitional nature serve as a necessary precondition for a change (in the cases prescribed by law) in the nature of the activities of the court and make final rulings in the corresponding higher instance, i.e. court. The rulings of the Court of Appeal to consider cases according to the rules of the courts of first instance have not solved all the problems highlighted by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation some time ago: violation of the rules of jurisdiction, violation of the principles of equity and equality of the parties. The law was changed only in part relating to the question of jurisdiction, other problems remained unresolved, moreover, the Constitutional Court itself does not insist on the full implementation of its decisions handed down by the courts. The rulings on transferring the complaint for consideration in court hearings of the corresponding instance, rendered by cassation and supervisory authorities, do not have an exact guideline on the grounds of the imposition of such rulings. The judge filtering complaints operates at his discretion, the frames are not set by law, and judges, in this matter, can only rest on the grounds, resulting in cancellation of the decision. Final judicial acts of higher instances vessels must not only be rendered, but also announced; the persons participating in case must be informed through receiving copies of the rendered decisions and explained the possibility/impossibility of further appeal and the order of the appeal. In this part the legislation is not specific, which leads to violation of rights of participants on information about the case and information about their own rights for further action. The work is devoted to such issues as the controversy of the application of first instance court procedural rules when considering cases in the appellate courts; different legal regulation of the possibility to send the case to the court of first instance in the procedural codes; lack of criteria to the discretion of the judge (admissibility criteria) carrying out filtering of appeals and supervisory complaints; insufficient attention to the final procedures of familiarization with the judicial act and to clarification of the possibilities and order of the further appeal.