D.B. Danilov,

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Civil Law 

and Civil Procedure of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation 

This article considers current issues related to the discussion and adoption of the draft law «On the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation» and the likely consequences of association of the Supreme Court with the Supreme Arbitrazh Court (SAC). SAC, especially in the last ten years, is the most effective government agency. This statement is supported by the fact that many countries have adopted precisely the policy that has been successfully applied in the judicial system of commercial (arbitrazh) courts of the Russian Federation. A clear directive on the openness and transparency of justice implemented in the SAC system through the accessible information about the movement of any commercial case, promptly publications of legal acts and introduction of «e-justice»; moreover, any document can be submitted remotely to the arbitration case via the Internet. On the background of SAC, a dynamic, transparent, introducing electronic document system, the Supreme Court frankly loses its efficiency. The cases in the district courts are opaque, and the system of the courts of general jurisdiction remains patriarchal and static and exists in informational closed space. 

Keywords: Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation; Supreme Court the Russian Federation; judicial reform; arbitration courts; courts of general jurisdiction.