SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF COURT CASELOAD AS ONE OF THE JUDICIAL REFORM TASKS
Introduction: effective judicial defense depends on certain number of judges and creation of necessary conditions guaranteed by law for their activity. The article deals with the questions of court practice in Russia which is characterized nowadays as critical. Purpose: revealing causes of the existing situation and finding possible ways for their solution. Methodological basis: dialectical method, functional analysis and comparative study allow to research formalities of the court caseload problem in Russia. The approach to this legal solution in European countries is also suggested. Institutional method let us reveal non-conformity in financial proportionality of different branches of the state power. Statistics and empirical analysis specify and confirm the theoretical conclusion. Results: the author’s opinion on the need to review the current judicial caseload as non-consistent with international standards and the RF Constitution are argued in the article. Conclusion: the author of the article proves that the quality and timely administration of justice is not possible without reasonable legal regulation of the quantitative and qualitative caseload norms. The ongoing efforts to optimize court caseload would not fully solve the existing problems.