According to statistics from the Russian Federation, 33-35% of judicial vacancies are filled by people from the prosecutor's office, 23-25% - as a result of the transfer of judges to other positions, 15% - former lawyers, 13-15% - lawyers who practice, 11% - assistants and secretaries judges.
In order to become a judge in the Russian Federation, you must meet the following requirements:
- every citizen of the Russian Federation can become a judge;
- you should have a legal education;
- no criminal record or criminal prosecution;
- the candidate must not have a residence permit or citizenship of a foreign state;
- the applicant must be legally competent;
- not be registered in a neuropsychiatric and narcological dispensary;
- not have any diseases that may interfere with the work of a judge.
Becoming a judge in the Constitutional Court will allow compliance with all the above requirements, age is at least 40 years and 15 years of experience in legal work.
You can get into the Supreme Arbitration Court and the Supreme Court at the age of at least 35 years and you need to have 10 years of experience in the legal profession. To become a judge of an arbitration, constitutional, district, garrison military courts, you need to be at least 25 years old and with at least 5 years of experience. In order to fill the rest of the judicial vacancies at all levels, you must be at least 30 years old and have legal experience of at least 7 years.
A judge should be guided in his practice by the principles of fairness and justice: verdicts should be made on the basis of excellent legal knowledge, within the framework of justice and life experience. Also, the inherent characteristics of a judge must be conscientiousness and humanism: a person who sees in the victim, the defendant or in other persons who are involved in the case, a “means”, but not a “goal”, cannot be suitable for judicial practice.
When a judge is sworn in, he swears in good faith and honestly to carry out his duties, which are to administer fair and impartial justice, as his conscience and duty command him.
