Easier appeal procedure will lead to work overload - ConstitutionalCourt
MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - There is no need to change the
regulations for appealing to the Russian Constitutional Court (CC), said
Court president Valery Zorkin.
"From the point of view of constitutional safety there is no need
to make any changes to the rules," Zorkin said on Ekho Moskvy on
Wednesday.
If the procedure of lodging complaints by individuals with the
Court was facilitated, "the Constitutional Court would be dead, it would
be piled with their cases," he said.
"Each year the Constitutional Court receives 19,000 complaints"
from individuals, who suffered as a result of any particular law being
applied, he said. Despite the quantity of complaints, the CC makes 350-
400 decisions each year, because many complaints do not meet the
application requirements.
As regards plans to move the Constitutional Court to St.
Petersburg, Zorkin said that not everyone in the court agreed to change
their residence. "Unfortunately, not all specialists were able to move
for various, purely domestic and human, reasons," Zorkin said.
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