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Judges' status law of the Russian Federation
1992, 26 June, N 3132-1
As amended 1993, 14 April; 1993, 24 December; 1995, 21 June
Application of the Law extended 1993, 14 April
Section 1. Judges are the Bearers of Judicial Power
1. Judicial power in the Russian Federation belongs only to the courts in the
persons of judges and people representatives drawn in the administration of
justice in the cases stated by the Law.
2. Judicial power is self-dependent and acts independently from legislative
and executive powers.
3. Judges according to this Law are the persons empowered to administer justice
in the constitutional order and performing their duties on the professional
basis.
4. Judges are independent and submit only to the Constitution of the Russian
Federation and to the Law. They are not accountable to anybody in their activities
which deals with the administration of justice.
5. The facts of the contempt of court are punishable according to the Law.
6. The demands and directions of the judges made while performing their duties
are binding for all state bodies, public unions, officials and another physical
and juridical persons. Any information, documents and their copies nessesary
for administration of justice must be given according to the demands of the
judges free of charge. Non-observance of the demands and directions of the judges
is punishable according to the Law.
Section 2. Unity of the Judges' Status
1. All the judges of the Russian Federation have the same status. Some particular
features of the legal position of some categories of judges, including the judges
of military courts, are determined by federal laws and in special cases described
in federal laws - by the laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
2. Judges are given qualificational classes according to their present position,
experience in the position of a judge and another sircumstances determined by
the Law. Conferment of a qualiflcational class does not mean that the status
of such judge among the other judges in the Russian Federation must be changed.
Special features of the legal position of the Justices of the Constitutional
Court are determined'by Federal Constitutional Law.
Section 3. Requirements to the Judges
1. A judge must observe carefully the Constitution of the Russian Federation
and other laws.
2. A judge while performing his or her duties and in his or her private relations
must try to avoid of everything that can belittle the authority of the judicial
power, dignity of a judge or create any doubt about his or her objectivity,
justice and impartiality.
3. A judge can not be a deputee, belong to any political party or movement,
conduct some private business and combine the work as a judge with another paid
work except scientific, teaching, literary or another creative activities. Retired
judge has a right to work in the sphere of justice.
Section 4. Requirements to the Applicants for the
Judge's Office
1. A citizen of the Russian Federation not less than 25 years old, having received
high legal education and with an experience in the legal profession not less
than 5 years, not commited any defaming acts can become a judge after passing
qualifying examination and gaining a recommendation of the Qualifying Collegium
of Judges.
But only a citizen of the Russian Federation not less than 30 years old can
become a judge of the higher court, and a citizen of the Russian Federation
not less than 35 years old with the experience in the legal profession not less
than ten years can become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
or of the Highest Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation.
2. Additional requirements to the applicants for the offices of judges in the
courts of the Russian Federation may be stated in Federal Law.
Section 5. Selection of the Applicants for the Judge's
Office
1. Selection of the applicants for the judge's office is perfomed on the competitive
basis.
2. Any citizen of the Russian Federation having received high legal education
and being 25 years old has a right to be allowed to take the qualifying examination
for the judge's office.
3. Qualifying examination for the judge's office must be conducted by an examinational
body'attached to the local body of the Ministry of Justice, personal staff of
which is adopted by the Qualifying Collegium of Judges.
4. Only a person which is not a judge may take the qualifying examination. The
results of the qualifying examination are valid during three years from the
date of passing it and during the whole period of work as a judge.
5. Every citizen of the Russian Federation who meets the requirements to the
applicants for the office of a judge in an appropriate court has a right to
apply to the qualifying collegium of judges for the recommendation for that
place.
6. Qualifying collegium of judges in it's terms of reference considers the request
of a person pretending to the appropriate office of a judge, and taking into
account the results of the qualifying examination makes a decision about giving
such person a recommendation or refusing of giving it. Repeated appeal to the
qualifying collegium of judges is allowed not less than a year after the date
of the decision.
7. Qualifying collegium of judges gives the chairman of an appropriate court
a conclusion about every applicant recommended. If the chairman does not agree
with the conclusion it must be returned to the same qualifying collegium of
judges for repeated consideration. If second conclusion is positive again the
chairman of the appropriate court will have to introduce the candidature for
futher consideration in the order stated by the Law.
Section 6. Order of empowering judges
1. Justices of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and of the Highest
Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation are appointed to the office by
the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
according to the application of the President of the Russian Federation, which
must be introduced taking into account the opinions of the Chairman of the Supreme
Court of the Russan Federation and the Chairman of the Highest Court of Arbitration
respectively.
2. Judges of federal circuit courts of arbitration are appointed to the office
by the President of the Russian Federation according to the application of the
Chairman of the Highest Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation.
3. Judges of other federal courts of general jurisdiction and courts of arbitration
are appointed to the office by the President of the Russian Federation according
to the applications of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
and the Chairman of the Highest Court of Arbitration respectively taking into
account the opinion of the legislative (representative) body of the appropriate
subject of the Russian Federation.
4. Judges of military courts are appointed to the office by the President of
the Russian Federation according to the application of the Chairman of the Supreme
Court of the Russian Federation.
5. The President of the Russian Federation in a month term since he receives
necessary materials appoints judges of federal courts and introduces the applicants
for the offices of Justices in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and
the Highest Court of Arbitration for appointment to the Council of Federation
of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation or refuses to introduce them
and informs the chairman of the appropriate court about that.
6. Appointments to the offices of judges must be performed only in the presence
of positive conclusion of the qualifying collegium of judges.
7. In the case of refusal of appointment of an applicant to the office of a
judge of a court of general jurisdiction or a court of arbitration appropriate
qualifying collegium of judges has a right having repeated application of a
candidate to consider the grounds of refusal and to give positive conclusion
about the appointment of this applicant once again.
Section 7 - excluded 1995, 21, June
Section 7-1. Acting Judge
1. A retired judge, if he gives his concent, may be drown in the administration
of justice as an acting judge for a period not more than one year in the presence
of a vacant judge's office or in the case of temporary considerable increase
of amount of work in the court or in the absence of a judge or in the case of
postponing his authorities. There can not be any acting judges in the Constitutional
Court of the Russian Federation.
2. Drawning of a retired judge in the administration of justice as an acting
judge is performed by the chairman of appropriate higher court in the presence
of positive conclusion of a qualifying collegium ofjudges.
Section 8. Judge's Oath
1. A judge appointed to the office for the first time in solemn situation takes
the following oath:
"I solemnly swear to perform my duties honestly and consctientiously, to
administer justice submitting only to the Law, to be fair and justice as my
duty and my conscience permit me"
2. Justices of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and of the Highest
Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation take their oaths on the meetings
of Justices of these Courts. Judges of the other courts take their oaths on
the congresses (conferences) or on the meetings ofjudges.
3. A judge takes the oath standing before the State Flag of the Russian Federation
and in suitable cases - before the state flag of the republic combining the
Russian Federation.
Section 9. Guarantees of the Independence of a Judge
1. Independence of a judge is guaranteed by:
- the procedure of administration of justice stated by the Law;
- the prohibition of anybodie's interference into the activities dealing with
the administration of justice under the threat of punishment;
- stated order of postponing and ceasing powers of a judge;
- the right of a judge for being retired;
- personal immunity of a judge;
- the system of the organs of judicial community;
- granting the judge material and social ensurance according to his high status
by the state.
2. A judge, members of his family and his property are under special guard of
the state. Bodies of the Ministry of Inferior are obliged to undertake nessesary
measures for ensuring the security of a judge, his family, safety of his property
if they receive from a judge an appropriate application.
A judge has a right to keep and carry an official fire-arm, which must be given
him or her by the body of the Ministry of Inferior in the order stated by the
Weapon Law of the Russian Federation.
3. Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, ministries of justice of the
republics combining the Russian Federation and other bodies of the Ministry
of Justice carry out nessesary measures in order to provide perfect conditions
for judicial activities, it's personnel, organizational and resources ensurance.
The Highest Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation undertakes nessesary
measures for providing perfect conditions for activities of the courts of arbitration.
Activities of the military courts are ensured in the order stated by the Military
Courts Law.
4. The guarantees of the judges' independence including measures of his legal
security, material and social ensurance provided by this Law are extended to
all the judges in the Russian Federation and can not be abolished or diminished
by any other act of the Russian Federation or of the subject of the Russian
Federation.
Section 10. Inadmissibility of Interference Into the
Activities of a Judge
1. Any interference into the judges' activities dealing with the administration
of justice is punishable by the Law.
2. A judge is not obliged to give anybody any explanations about the cases considering
or have been already considered and to give the materials of the case anybody
to get aquainted with them, except the cases stated by the Law.
Section 11. Term of Office of a Judge
1. Terms of office of the judges in the Russian Federation are not limited except
ceirtain cases described in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this
Section.
2. Judges of Peace are elected on a five year term by the population of the
circuit of their jurisdiction.
3. Judges of district (city) people's courts, judges of military courts of garrisons
(armies, flotillas, formations) at first are appointed to the office for a three
year term after which they may be appointed without limitation of the term of
office.
Section 12. Irremovability of a Judge
A judge is irremovable. He is not liable to any transference to another post
or to another court without his concent, and his authorities can not be postponed
or ceased in the other way than on the grounds and in the order stated by this
Law.
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Section 13. Postponing of the Judicial Authorities
1. The authorities of a judge may be postponed by the decision of the qualifying
collegium of judges in the presence of one of the grounds shown below:
1) recognising a judge as obscurity absent by the decision of a court which
is already in it's legal force;
2) agreement of a qualifying collegium of judges about charging a judge with
criminal responsibility or imprisonment of a judge;
3) participance of a judge in the election campaign as a nominee to the body
of the legislative (representative) power of the Russian Federation or to the
body of the legislative (representative) power of the subject of the Russian
Federation;
4) election of a judge to the body of the legislative (representative) power
of the Russian Federation or to the body of the legislative (representative)
power of the subject of the Russian Federation.
2. A judge whose authorities are postponed according to the subparagraphs 2
and 3 paragraph 1 of this
Section or who have been refused of postponing his authorities can appeal to
the Highest Qualifying Collegium of Judges in 10 days after receiving the copy
of the decision. The decision of the Highest Qualifying Collegium of Judges
can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in the same term.
3. Postponing of the authorities of a judge, except the cases of his or her
imprisonment as a preventive punishment, does not put an end to the payments
of his or her salary to him or her, or in the case of recognising him or her
as obscurity absent - to his or her family, or does not diminish his or her
salary. Postponing of the authorities of a judge, except the cases of his or
her imprisonment as a preventive punishment, does not diminish other kinds of
his or her material and social ensurances and cease the guarantees of his or
her personal immunity, stated by this Law.
4. Decision about the resumption of the authorities of a judge must be made
by the qualifying collegium of judges that has postponed his or her authorities.
Section 14. Ceasing of the Judicial Authorities
1. Authorities of a judge may be ceased according to the grounds shown below:
1) written application of a judge for his or her retirement;
2) impossibility for him or her to perform judicial duties for a long time because
of his state of health or other valid reasons. The qualifying collegium of judges
can cease the authorities of a judge according to these reasons but it has no
right to do so in the case of his or her entrance upon his duties;
3) written application of a judge for ceasing his or her authorities because
of passing to another job or other reasons;
4) expiring of the term of office of a judge if it was limited;
5) discharge a judge of a military court from military service on reaching age
limit for military service;
6) ceasing of the citizenship of the Russian Federation;
7) performing some activities incompatible with the judicial office;
8) the sentence charging the judge with criminal responsibility or judicial
decision about application of medical measures ofcompultion to him or her which
came into it's legal force;
9) commitment of an action disgracing conscience and dignity of a judge or bellitling
authority of the judicial powder;
10) judicial decision about limitation of the capability of a judge or recognising
him as uncapable which came into it's legal force;
11) death of the judge or a decision of the court about declaring him or her
dead which came into it's legal force;
12) refuse of a judge to be transferred to another court because of the reorganisation
or abolishment of the court.
2. The authorities of a judge are ceased by the decision of an appropriate qualifying
collegium of judges which can be appealed by the judge to the Highest Qualifying
Collegium of Judges in 10 days since he or she received it's copy. Decision
of the Highest Qualifying Collegium of Judges can be appealed to the Supreme
Court of the Russian Federation in the same term.
3. In the case of repeal of the decision of the qualifying collegium of judges
about ceasing the authorities of a judge or repeal of the sentence charging
him or her with criminal responsibility or judicial decision named in subparagraph
8 paragraph 1 of this
Section such judge must be restored in his office with payment of his salary.
Section 15. Retirement of a Judge
1. Retirement in the sence of this Law means honorary resignation or removal
of a judge from his office. A retired person preserves the title of judge, guarantees
of personal immunity and membership of the judicial community.
2. Every judge has a right to be retired irrespective of his age. A judge is
recognized as a retired one if his authorities were ceased on the grounds pointed
in subparagraphs 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 and 12 paragraph 1 of
Section 14 of this Law.
The time of holding the office of a judge in the regions of Extreme North or
other equal territories must be included into the length of service of a judge
is counted half as much again.
3. Resigned or removed judge must receive a discharge pay in the size of his
present month salary for every whole year of holding the judge's office but
not less than six month salaries in the office he left. The judge already been
resigned or removed must receive a discharge pay only for the time of holding
his office after retirement.
4. A judge after his retirement preserves the right to use public transport
free of charge and other rights stated for this category of judges by the laws
of the Russian Federation currently in force.
5. A retired judge receives a pension on common grounds. A retired judge with
the length of service in the office of a judge not less than 20 years may choose
to receive a pension or tax free monthly life salary in the size of 80% of the
salary of a judge holding equal office at the present time. A retired judge
with the length of service in the office of a judge less than 20 years but reached
the age of 55 (for women -50) receives his or her monthly life salary in proportion
to the amount of whole years he or she holded the office of a judge.
A retired judge having the length of service in the office of a judge more than
20 years must receive his monthly life salary increased for one per cent for
every year over 20 but not more than 85% of the salary of a judge holding equal
office at the present time.
Retired judges which became invalid because of war traumas have a right to receive
monthly life salary together with the disability pension.
6. The judge is considered as a retired one till he or she observes the demands
of paragraph 3 of
Section 3 of this Law, preserves Russian citizenship and does not commit any
acts defaming him and in this way belittling the authority of judicial power.
7. The qualifying collegium of judges situated in the former place of work or
the constant place of living of a retired judge having established that he is
not meeting the requirements to the judge, stated in this Law, any more, must
cease the retirement of a judge. A judge whose retirement was ceased have a
right to appeale this decision in the order stated by paragraph 2 of
Section 14 of this Law.
8. The retirement of a judge must be already ceased when this judge is elected
to the office once again.
9. A judge whose retirement was ceased has a right to receive a pension in accordance
with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Section 16. Immunity of a Judge
1. Personality of a judge is protected by the immunity. This immunity extends
on his habitation and office, transport facilities and means of communication
that he uses, his mail, property and documents belonging to him.
2. A judge can not be charged with disciplinary or administrative responsibility.
A judge can not be charged with any responsibility for his or her opinion or
decision made while administering justice if there is no sentence in legal force
that establishes his guilt in abuse of his powders.
3. A judge must be charged with criminal responsibility only by the Procurator
General of the Russian Federation or a person acting as him in the presence
of the agreement of appropriate qualifying collegium of judges.
4. A judge can not be charged with criminal responsibility, imprisoned or brought
to the court without an agreement of the qualifying collegium of judges. The
imprisonment of a judge is allowed only according to the sanction of the Procurator
General of the Russian Federation or the person acting as him or according to
the decision of the court.
5. A judge can not be detained in any case, or compulsory been brought to any
state body because of the investigation of the administrative case. A judge
which have been suspected in commiting a crime and detained or detained and
brought to the local body of the Ministry of Inferior, another state body because
of the investigation of the administrative case must be immediatly released
after identification of his personality.
6. Penetration into the habitation or office of a judge, into his personal or
official transport that he uses, conducting an examination, seach or seizure
there, wiretapping, personal examination or seach of a judge, and examination,
seach and seizure of his mail, property belonging to him, must be performed
with observance of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws
and only in connection with the investigation of criminal case against this
judge.
7. Criminal case against the judge according to his demand declared before the
beginning of the trial must be tried at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
Section 17. Bodies of Judicial Community
1. In order to express the interests of judges as the bearers of judicial power
they form bodies of judicial community.
2. Bodies of judicial community are:
All-Russian Congress of Judges and in periods between congresses Council of
Judges of the Russian Federation elected by All-Russian Congress of Judges;
meetings of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and
the Highest Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation;
congresses (conferences) of the judges of the republics composing the Russian
Federation, regions, provinces, cities Moscow and St. Petersburg, autonomous
province and autonomous circuits, military circuits, groops of troops and navy,
courts of arbitration and in periods between congresses councils of judges elected
by them.
3. Bodies of Judicial Community:
1) discuss questions of judicial practice and improvement of the legislation;
2) conduct public expertise of the drafts of laws and other acts dealing with
the judicial activities and status of judges;
3) consider actual problems of functioning of the courts, their personnel, organisational
and resources provision and legal and social position of judges;
4) represent interests of judges in the state bodies and public unions;
5) elect appropriate qualifying collegiums of judges (for courts of general
jurisdiction, military courts and courts of arbitration separatly).
4. Bodies of judicial community adopt decisions on the questions discussed and
also appeals to the state bodies, public unions and public officials. Such appeals
must be considered in a month term.
5. Bodies of judicial community perform their work observing the principles
of independence of judges and inadmissibility of interference into the judicial
activities.
6. The order of formation and activity of the bodies of judicial community are
determined by the All-Russian Congress of Judges.
Section 18. Qualifying Collegiums of Judges
1. For considering questions of:
selection of the applicants for the office of judge;
postponing and ceasing of the authorities of a judge;
ceasing of the retirement of a judge;
providing personal immunity of a judge;
conducting attestation of a judge and giving him or her qualification class,
- the Highest Qualifying Collegium of Judges and qualifying collegiums of judges
of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, judges of the republics combining
the Russian Federation, regions, provinces, cities Moscow and St. Petersburg,
autonomous province and autonomous circuits, judges of military courts, groops
of troops and navy, and also of the Highest Court of Arbitration and courts
of arbitration are formed.
2. Order of formation and activity and also authorities of the Highest and other
collegiums of judges are determined by the regulation adopted by the State Duma
of the Russian Federation.
Section 19. Material Assurance of Judges
1. Salary of a judge (monetary payment of a judge of a military court) consists
of official rate of pay and for judges of military courts -also of rate of pay
for military ranks, additional payments for qualification class, working experience,
and additional payment of 50% of salary for special conditions of work, that
can not be diminished. A judge also receives other payments stated by the laws
and other legal acts. The size of additional payments for qualification class
or working experience is stated by Federal Law of the Russian Federation. The
size of official rate of pay of a judge is stated according to his office in
per cents to the rate of pay of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian
Federation and the Chairman of the Highest Court of Arbitration, stated by Federal
Law of the Russian Federation, and can not be less than fifty per cent of it.
Official rate of pay of a judge can not be less than eighty per cent of the
rate of pay of the chairman of appropriate court.
A judge having reached the age of 60 (women - 55), with the experience in legal
profession not less than 25 years, not less than 10 years from which holding
the office of a judge, has a right to receive monthly life salary in full size
being retired. While counting the size of monthly life salary it is necessary
to include into the length of service not only the length of service holding
the office of a judge, but also the length of service as a legal specialist
in state organisations where high legal education was necessary and term of
service as an advocate before appointment to the office of a judge.
Judges holding their offices in the regions of Extreme North and equal territories
not less than 15 and 20 years respectively and being retired must receive monthly
life salary taking into consideration regional coefficient to the salary irrespective
of their place of living and the time of applying for such salary.
Judges having academic degree of a candidate of law science or academic status
of senior lecturer receive additional payment in a rate of five per cent of
their official rate of pay, and judges having academic degree of a doctor of
law science or academic status of a professor - 10 per cent of their official
rate of pay. Judges having honorary title "Honoured Lawyer of the Russian
Federation" receive additional payment in a rate of 10 per cent of his
official rate of pay. Retired judges and judges having ranks also have a right
to receive such additional payments. So, size of their monthly life salary taking
into consideration additional payments named before and additional payments
named in the second indention of paragraph 5 of
Section 15 of this Law can not exceed 85 per cent of the salary of a judge holding
equal office now.
2. Judges are granted annual paid holidays with the duration of 30 working days.
Judges working in the regions of Extreme North are granted annual paid holidays
with the duration of 51 working days, and in some equal regions and in regions
with hard or unfavourable climate conditions where the coefficients to the salary
are existing - 45 working days.
A judge is granted additional annual paid holiday according to his length of
service in legal profession:
from 5 to 10 years - 5 working days;
from 10 to 15 years - 10 working days;
over 15 years - 15 working days.
Time of travelling to the place of rest and back is not included into the term
of holiday. Cost of travel to the place of rest and back must be paid.
Order of determination of the length of service for giving additional annual
paid holidays is stated by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the
Highest Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of
Justice of the Russian Federation.
3. Local administration is obliged not later than in six months since empowering
a judge and (or) in the case of necessity of improving his or her conditions
of living to give him or her out of term comfortable appartment in the shape
of separate flat or house considering the right of every judge for additional
living space not less than 20 square meters or in the shape of separate room.
Such appartment must be given to the judge at the expence of local budget with
further compensation from federal budget in a term not less than six months
or must be bought by the court at the expence of means of federal budget given
to the court for such purposes, and a judge must be considered to be in the
need of improving of his or her living conditions if his or her living space
does not meet social norms stated by the Dwelling Code of the Russian Federation
and this Law or if he or she is living in communal flat. Appartment must be
given into the possession of the judge free of charge.
With the consent of a judge instead of appartment he or she may receive interest-bearing
loan from federal budget for purchase or building an habitation which must be
paid off under the condition of holding the office of a judge for 10 years.
The questions of installation of home phones and giving places in children pre-school
institutions must be decided out of term not more than in three months with
payments from local budget.
4. A retired judge having the length of service holding the office of a judge
not less than 20 years or became an invalid during his work and wanting to remove
to the new area for constant place of living must be provided out of term by
local administration with comfortable appartment in the shape of separate flat
or house at the expence of federal budget. Also such judge must be provided
with an oppotunity to join the membership in housing co-operative or with assistance
in individual house-building.
A retired judge preserves a right to use provided additional living space named
in paragraph 3 of this
Section.
5. A judge and members of his or her family have a right to use medical service
including provision with medicines at the expence of federal budget. Also they
have a right to enjoy sanatorium-spa treatment at the expence of federal budget
for the judge, his wife or her husband and their children under age. A judge
preserves such right also after retirement or pension off. Medical treatment
of a retired judge or a judge pensioned off and members of his or her family
must be performed at the expence of federal budget at the same medical institutions
where they were registered.
6. In the case of ceasing of the authorities of a judge according to subparagraph
11 paragraph 1 of
Section 14 of this Law his or her family receives lump sum allowance in the
rate of his or her month salary in the last office for every full year of holding
the office of a judge but not less than his or her annual salary.
In the case of abolishment or reorganisation of the court a judge with his consent
may be transfered to another court. A judge preserve his or her salary during
the time of official registration of his or her transference. If the judge refuses
to be transfered to another court he or she has a right to retire on the common
grounds. In such case he also receives a compensation in the rate of his annual
salary received at the last office.
7. A judge has a right to use according to his or her official identity card
all kinds of transport of urban, country and local communication (except taxi).
Also a judge enjoys reservation of places in hotel or getting them and travel
documents out of turn.
8. Judges and other court staff having ranks are supplied with official uniform
free of charge according to the norms adopted by the Government of the Russian
Federation.
Section 20. Measures of Social Security for Judges
and Members of Their Families
1. Life, health and property of judges must be obligatory insured by the State
at the expence of federal budget. Life and health of a judge must be insured
for the sum of his salary for fifteen years.
2. Bodies of State insurance must pay insurance sums in the following cases:
murder (death) of a judge during his work or after his dismissal from office
if it ensued because of physical injuries or other health injury - to his or
her successors in the rate of his or her salary for fifteen years;
causing mutilations or other health injury to the judge that excepts his or
her further ability to perform his or her professional activities - in the rate
of his or her salary for three years;
causing physical injuries or other health injury to the judge that did not entail
steady disability that will except his or her further ability to perform his
or her professional activities - in the rate of his or her annual salary.
3. In the case of causing mutilations or other health injury to the judge that
excepts his or her further ability to perform his or her professional activities
he or she must receive monthly compensation in the rate of the salary of a judge
holding equal office.
At the same time disability pension or other types of pension the judge received
before or after getting mutilations can not be included into the compensation.
Also the salary such judge receives after getting mutilations and payments of
obligatory State insuranse can not be taken into consideration for payments
of compensation.
4. In the case of murder (death) of a judge disabled members of his or her family
who were his or her dependants must receive monthly compensation in the rate
of salary of a judge holding equal office with the deduction of the part of
the judge himself without taking into account payments of obligatory State insurance,
dependant pension and another pensions, payments, grants and other income.
Such order of payment should be applied to the cases of murder (death) of a
retired judge members of whose family who were his or her defendants must receive
monthly compensation according to the rate of life salary of that judge.
5. Injury inflicted by destruction or damage of the property that belongs to
the judge or members of his or her family must be compensated to the judge or
members of his or her family in it's whole amount.
6. Payments compensating the injury named in paragraph 3, 4 and 5 of this
Section must be taken at the expence of federal budget.
7. Rules stated in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this
Section should not be applied if it was established in the order stated by the
Law that inflicting injury to the judge or members of his family was not connected
with his official activity.
Section 21. Symbols of Judicial Power
1. The State Flag of the Russian Federation must be placed on the court building
and in the court-room there must be the State Flag of the Russian Federation
and the picture of the State Emblem of the Russion Federation.
2. While administering justice judges must wear judge's gown.
3. Judges, and also retired judges, must get their official identity cards from
the body or public official appointed them to the office.
President of the Russian Federation
B. Yeltsin
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