Republic
03.02.2006
Chairman of the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus Viktor Kamenkov has reported to the Belarusian president today on the performance of economic courts of the republic.
Administering justice in the sphere of private business, economic courts play an important role in strengthening economic relations, revitalizing the country’s economy and improving the legislation. The administration of justice in the economic sphere secures legal rights of all-type business entities and interests of the state as well as the due execution of court regulations.
According to the president’s press-service, the recent years have witnessed a steady upward trend in the number of applications from business entities and governmental bodies to economic courts of the republic. In 2005 the number of applications went up by 9 per cent from 2004 to 48,5 thousand. The increase is an objective process typical for a stably developing economy. The total sum of the claims filed to the economic courts made about Br1,5 trillion in 2005.
Viktor Kamenkov and Alexander Lukashenko discussed issues on enhancing the quality of justice in the system of economic courts. They considered financial, personnel and other issues of the activity of economic courts including the ones on the cooperation with other state bodies and the forthcoming discussion of the draft Code on Juridical System and Judges’ Status.
The president valued highly the activity of economic courts in Belarus. At present legal proceedings are instituted on 90 per cent of applications to the courts. The number of ungrounded refusals has considerably reduced.
Protection of the rights and legal interests of citizens and subjects of economy should remain top-priority in the activity of economic courts, the head of state underlined.