Right of Citizens to Participate in the Administration of Justice: Concept, Legal Nature and Content
The article is devoted to a comparative legal study of the consolidation, content and mechanism of the implementation of the right to the administration of justice in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Republic of Belarus. The article reveals the normative legal foundations of the right to administer justice in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Belarus, securing the place of the right to administer justice in the system of rights, the significance of this right for citizens, the way of securing the right in law. The author analyzes the powers of the right to administer justice from the position of researchers of the theory of subjective law. Attention is paid to the requirements for persons who have expressed a desire to exercise the right to administer justice as a jury, arbitration, and people’s assessors, judges in the legislation of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Republic of Belarus. The author analyzes the validity of professional and reputation requirements enshrined in legislation. The result of the research in the article was the identification of similarities and differences in the mechanisms for the implementation of the right to the administration of justice in the above legal systems.