Leading Principles of Equity and Equality Before the Law in the Process of Electronic Justice

摘要

This paper focuses on the leading principles of equity and equality before the law in the process of electronic justice. One would probably agree that in the era of digital economy, the judicial reform in Russian Federation should and is being developed and modernized. E-justice is being introduced at all stages of legal proceedings which corresponds to all leading trends in the world. In this paper, the authors consider e-justice as a necessary phenomenon of a dual nature identifying some problems concerning the principle of equity and that of equality before the law caused by electronic justice. The research analyzes both the interaction between the principles of justice and their implementation in the process of administering e-justice and foreign experience in putting e-justice into practice. We reveal several e-justice problems and propose the way of dealing with them. We also come to a balanced conclusion that the method of comparative analysis applied in the research helps to introduce e-justice in Russia and modernize it.