The economic component of the courts’ activities on the administration of justice is a complex issue that, unfortunately, still remained outside the field of view of the Russian researchers. The court financing system, as well as mechanisms to improve the economic efficiency of the administration of justice are topical issues of the modern legal orders, which are closely associated with the principle of independence of judges and the guarantees of independence. Justice is a point of collision of public and private interests, that is why the question of the relation of these interests within the economy of justice is particularly relevant. The purpose of this study is to identify trends in economic aspect of the activity of courts from the standpoint of the ratio between private and public interests both in Russian and in foreign legal systems of Continental-European and Anglo-American legal families, as well as determining the future prospects of such development. The objective of the study is to analyze the financing systems of the judicial system and mechanisms to improve the economic efficiency of the administration of justice, including the optimization of the case load, the introduction of e-justice, regulation of the state fee. To achieve the goals and objectives of the study can be applied a systemic-structural, comparative legal, historical, systemic and statistical methods and scientific methods of induction and deduction.
As the results of the study were identified the main models of financing of the judiciary and tendencies of their development, the problem of the case load and ways for its reduction were considered in comparative legal aspect in present article. Also the author has taken an assessment of institutions of electronic justice and state duties, as well as their role in improving the economic efficiency of the courts. On the basis of these results the author has made a few suggestions for the further development of the proceedings.
The German and the Anglo-American View of the State
