MOSCOW, April 14 (RAPSI) – The Plenum of Russia’s Supreme Court has approved a bill that introduces legal procedure into the Commercial Procedural Code allowing commercial courts to dismiss lawsuits.

This legal procedure was previously present in the Commercial Procedural Codes of 1992 and 1995.

The accompanying note to the bill says that lack of such legal procedure in the current Code forces commercial courts to dismiss lawsuits only after start of respective court hearings. Legislators believe that reintroduction of this procedure will optimize efficiency of Russian commercial courts and will accelerate the decision-making process in them by reducing the workload pressure. Such measures will hopefully improve the quality of justice procedure in Russia, the note reads.

According to the bill, a judge will be able to dismiss a lawsuit if it can’t be reviewed by an commercial court or if similar case was already reviewed by other court. Such dismissal will prevent plaintiff from filing the same lawsuit again with a court, but it also may be appealed.

Currently similar legal procedures are present in the Civil Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russian Federation.