MOSCOW, May 26 (RAPSI) – The Russia’s Supreme Court proposes that heads of general jurisdiction courts should be permitted to correct apparent judicial errors on their own authority, even in cases not appealed against by defeated parties, - Vyacheslav Lebedev, the Chairman of the Court has stated speaking at the Council of Judges.

At present, courts may reconsider cases only on condition that one of the parties complains.

According to Lebedev, it is needed to permit court chairpersons and their deputies to initiate supervisory procedures on their own authority in cases, where fundamental principles of justice were breached.

“Where a breach of fundamental principles of justice is suspected, perhaps representatives of the judicial system should be granted such a right so judges could intervene with court rulings and such rulings could be quashed. Definitely, it is referred to the situations, where the quashing of rulings does not make it worse for defendants,” – the Chairman of the Supreme Court said.

Lebedev suggested that the judiciary should develop ideas aimed to implement this proposal and discuss these ideas at the All-Russian Congress of Judges this December.