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Federal Law on Ensuring Access to Information on the Activity of Courts in the Russian Federation - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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Preview Page Chapter I. General Provisions
Article 1. Basic Concepts Used in Present Federal Law
For the purposes of the present Federal Law, the following basic concepts are used:
(1) inquiry – recourse of a user of information in oral or written form, including in the form of an electronic document, to courts, the Judicial Department attached to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – Judicial Department), administration of the Judicial Department in subjects of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – agencies of the Judicial Department), judges’ community agencies concerning the provision of information about the activity of courts in the Russian Federation (hereinafter – information on the activity of courts) [as amended by Federal Law of 12 March 2014, No. 29-ФЗ];
(2) information on the activity of courts – information prepared within the limits of their powers by courts, Judicial Department, agencies of the Judicial Department, judges’ community agencies, or received in courts, Judicial Department, agencies of the Judicial Department, judges’ community agencies, and relating to the activity of courts. Legislation of the Russian Federation establishing the procedure for court proceedings, powers and procedure for the activity of courts, Judicial Department, agencies of the Judicial Department, judges’ community agencies, judicial acts with regard to concrete cases, and other acts regulating questions of the activity of courts also is relegated to information on the activity of courts;
(3) user of information – citizen (natural person), organization (juridical person), social association, agency of State power, or agency of local self-government effectuating a search for information concerning the activity of courts;
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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