Russia proposes to create online courts

Vice President of the Federal Chamber of Advocates (FPA) Elena Avakyan proposed creating courts in Russia that would consider disputes related to online transactions online, Interfax reports .

"It is quite logical that legal disputes related to transactions on the Internet should be considered by the court on the Internet. The idea of ​​creating Internet courts is quite justified in this case," she told the agency during the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.

Avakyan noted that China already has full-fledged online courts that deal with disputes related to transactions made online.

"They interact with the parties only on the Internet, and make decisions exclusively on actions that are somehow connected to the Internet. And today, these courts are already considering tens of millions of cases a year. Therefore, perhaps the structure of the judicial system itself will change over time, and such specialized courts will appear within our judicial system," the FPA vice-president believes.

According to Avakyan, the creation of such courts, which will not have representative offices, will help avoid disputes about jurisdiction. For example, an online store that operates exclusively online, in the event of litigation, may end up in the most remote places in Russia. And the parties will be able to enforce court decisions, in particular, pay a fine, where they are actually located or at their place of registration.

“And allocating a special court for these disputes would be the right decision for the purpose of reducing the workload, which is only growing every year,” added the FPA vice-president.

The Chairman of the Council of Judges, Viktor Momotov, said in April that Russia lacks more than four thousand federal judges. According to him, because of this, the work is effectively distributed among current judges, which negatively affects the workload.

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