Legal Approaches to Assessing Efficiency of Judiciary

The article deals with issues related to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the judiciary and the administration of justice in the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to update approaches and identify criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the judiciary, classify them by levels of organization of the judicial system and types of legal proceedings, search for key tasks and directions to improve the effectiveness of the administration of justice in the Russian Federation. It is noted that the judiciary occupies a special place in the constitutional system of public institutions. Despite this circumstance, the judiciary as part of the unified system of public authority in Russia and justice as a special type of state activity cannot be outside the evaluation system, which, first of all, is dictated by the public demand for legitimate, socially oriented, accessible and open justice. On the basis of system-structural, formal-legal, formal-logical and other methods of cognition, it is proposed to use various approaches to assessing the effectiveness of such categories as: “judicial authority”, “judicial activity”, “justice”. The author comes to the conclusion that from the point of view of the constitutional and legal doctrine, the evaluation of the effectiveness of the judiciary is not equivalent to the evaluation of the effectiveness of justice. The latter is considered as the degree of achievement of the tasks of implementing lawful, accessible, open one and socially oriented justice in all types of legal proceedings, for the purpose of state protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, the interests of society and the state. The effectiveness of justice in a narrow sense is expressed in statistical indicators of the work of judicial bodies. However, in a broad sense, the effectiveness of justice is associated with the overall contribution that the entire judicial system makes to achieve constitutional goals and national tasks. Special attention is paid to the effectiveness of constitutional justice as a key factor in the effective functioning of the judicial system. Recommendations are made aimed at improving the practice of executing decisions of the Constitutional Court, increasing the effectiveness of electronic justice, information openness of the judiciary.

judicial authority, judicial system, justice, assessment, electronic justice, judicial proceedings