Courts
Russia has a five-tiered court hierarchy responsible for civil and criminal cases:
- the Constitutional Court of Russia,
- the Supreme Court of Russia,
- regional courts,
- district courts, and
- Justices of the Peace Courts.
In 1995, the courts sentenced about 1 million people for criminal offenses, and considered 3 million administrative offenses and 2.5 million civil cases. The Justices of the Peace Courts were expected to hear two-thirds of all civil cases and close to 100,000 criminal cases.
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Famous quotes containing the word courts:
“The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counterauthority to the law.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory:”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm LXXXIV (l. LXXXIV, 9–11)
““With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophat”Ma token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)