MOSCOW, July 5 - RAPSI. The Supreme Court does not consider it necessary for jurors to investigate cases concerning administrative violations, including those on individuals taking part in unauthorized rallies, the court has written in response to Right Cause leader Andrei Dunayev's appeal.

Dunayev had asked the court's head Vyacheslav Lebedev to come up with a legislative initiative to establish a jury court on administrative cases.

"General jurisdiction courts have not submitted information to the Supreme Court that would demonstrate the necessity to attract jurors to administrative cases," Valentin Pirozhkov, the chairman of the Supreme Court's panel on administrative cases, wrote in his response.

The draft law on increasing punishment for rally violations was proposed by United Russia party members and came into effect on June 9. Pursuant to the amendments, the maximum administrative fine will be 300,000 rubles ($9,238) for individuals, 600,000 rubles ($18,476) for officials and 1 million rubles ($30,794) for legal entities.

If the violations complicate pedestrian or transport traffic or require additional police to be called to the scene, fines for individuals will range from 30,000 ($924) to 50,000 rubles ($1,539), and from 250,000 ($6,158) to 500,000 rubles ($15,397) for legal entities.The document also introduces a punishment for organizing unauthorized rallies under the guise of mass gatherings or "promenades" if this results in the violation of public order.