Impacts

• • fairer trials nd greater justice
  • Court proceedings ere public which meant that they were fairer and less corruption of admin to pervert course of justice
• Justice of peace courts worked quickly and cost nothing to those appearin in them

  • protected small man against the local officials
  • dispense equitable judgements
• during 60’s ad 70’s an educated legal sector emerged and were trained in law and arguments

  • some became revolutionaries or parliamentarians in Duma
• challenged political authority :
• challanged political authority

  1. Independant courts and judges = independent source of authority - public conscious + rule of law
  2. courtroorms gave way for genuine free speech as state could be challenged -defence lawyers critiqued regime and newspapers reported
  3. Juries were independant and aquitted cases such as Vera zazulich who shot the governor of st Petersburg who was cruel