OREANDA-NEWS. October 7, 2011. Issues on the agenda included improving the work of the examination commissions organising qualification tests for candidates for judges’ positions, possibilities for reducing the workload of magistrates, and limits on arbitration courts’ subordination.

Taking part in the meeting were President of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin, President of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev, President of the Supreme Arbitration Court Anton Ivanov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Vladislav Surkov, and Presidential Aide and Head of the Presidential State-Legal Directorate Larisa Brychyova.