Electivity of the judges

The judges osn of the component of Sov. judicial system - district (urban) national law court - are selected by the citizens of this region (city) on the basis of universal, equal and straight line of izbirat. of right with the secret voting with period to 5 years, national assessors - at the general meetings of workers, employees and peasants on the place of their work or residence, soldiers - on the military parts with the period for 2 years. Provincial, territorial, city courts, law courts author of regions and national regions are elected by the appropriate Soviets of Deputies of workers to 5 years. The top, the law court OF THE USSR, the top, the law courts of union and author of republics are selected respectively the top. By council OF THE USSR, The top. By councils of union and author of republics to 5 years. Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and members of voyen. of tribunals are selected presidium the top. Council OF THE USSR to 5 years. The national assessors of voyen. of tribunals are selected the open voting at the general meetings of the soldiers of military part (establishment) for 2 years.

Sov. legislation does not know any it will limit, qualifications for the election of judges or national assessors, except the age-qualification: by judge and by national assessor can be selected each citizen OF THE USSR, which reached to the day of the selections of 25 years. By the national assessor of voyen. of tribunals can be selected any adult citizen, who consists to deystvit. of voyen. to service.

Principle v. s. is completely realized in the foreign socialistic countries. In the majority of burzh. of states (in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and others.) judges are assigned, as a rule, Head of The State. In THE USA the members of the judicial organs of the part of the states (in the some states of judge they are assigned as governor) are selected. The members of the highest federal judicial organs are assigned as the President. Usually in these states acts antidemokratich. the principle of the irremovability of judges, i.e. they are assigned for life. I. d. of Perl.
 
ELECTED POSITION, post in the State apparatus or public organizations, replaced via selections. In THE USSR by worker and using, freed from the work in connection with the election on v. d. in the State organs, and also in the desks, trade-union, Komsomol, koop. and other societies, organizations, is allowed after the period of authorities on v. d. previous work, and with its absence - another equivalent work on the same or, from the agreement of worker, in other enterprise, establishment (bases of the legislation of the union OF SSR and union republics about labor, st. 46). Continuous length of employment remains upon transfer to another work in connection with the election on v. d. for the workers. The working disputes of elective workers, which occupy paid posts in their selected organization (on questions of release, restoration in the post, transfer into another work and impositions of dispiplinarnykh penalties, etc.), are solved by higher bodies by way of subordination (see the edict of presidium the top. Council OF THE USSR from 31 yanv. 1957, the "Gazettes of the Supreme Soviet OF THE USSR", 1957, № 4, st. 58). R. 3. Lifshitz.