Jury in the litigation system of Russian Federation (in comparison with common law approach)
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Jury in the litigation system of Russian Federation (in comparison with common law approach) The litigation system in Russia can be divided into 2 main branches: Civil and Criminal. They are similar in many ways; however there are many differences. For example there is no jury in the Civil litigation. The Civil Procedural Code doesn't mention the possibility of having a jury trial. As for me I agree with this position of RF Legislator. There are several reasons for such decision. The main reason is that people that constitute (or in our case that could constitute) the jury are not professional officials. That is why their mentality differs a lot from that one of a professional judge (this is the reason for excluding professional lawyers etc from the jury in Criminal Process). Issues that arise before the judge in civil case are more complicated and confused than jury's ordinary everyday-business. If...


