Where there is no justice, there is arbitrariness
At the present stage of the legal reform carried out in Russia, the most important component of which is the judicial reform, the issues related to the implementation of the legal principle enshrined in article 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, according to which the highest value of the state is recognized as a person, his rights and freedoms, acquire real The court has a crucial role to play in the implementation of this principle. However, the court does not mean justice. Justice, according to the authors of the article, is a legal procedure in which the dominant role is assigned to the law, that is, the objective factor, and the subjective factor (the will of the judge) is of auxiliary importance. The article reveals the authors ' idea of the essential criteria of justice and calls on the interested parties to a serious dialogue on the ways of justice formation in Russia.