“I propose to merge the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Commercial Court, for which it will be necessary to make amendments to the Constitution of Russia”
"The legal positions formulated by the Presidium and Plenary Session of the Supreme Commercial Court, - they are not only a guidance how to act, but also drafts for future court decisions"
“Let us say that we have a super-precedential law. I mean certain “traditions” in judges’ behaviour, certain attitude towards the authority of the superior court”. (Full version)
“It is impossible not to touch upon recently observed attempts of a significant part of legal community to introduce into Russian law-creation practice the elements of the Anglo-Saxon law of precedent”
The importance of preceding practice and available court decisions, the very precedentiality liberate a particular judge from individual responsibility. During a year ECHR receives about 50 thousand complaints. They mostly have one-type character. Usually it is possible to find an apposite decision, based on the ones adopted earlier… In Russia we, judges, exercise justice, often being guided by our intuition, our ideas of justice, good and evil. In ECHR the same things also exist, but bear less emotional character. The approach is rather pragmatic, procedural, precedential. (Full version.)