The Reform of the Local Court in Russia at the Beginning of the ХХ Century

The article analyzes the implementation of the reform of the local court in Russia, which began with the adoption of the law on June 15, 1912. The undertaken research is aimed at testing the hypothesis that the compromise and contradictory nature of the bill that has entered into force will have a significant impact on the process of implementing its norms.
In the course of the research, through the use of methods of historical analysis, formal legal, comparative legal, general scientific research methods, the peculiarities of the process of implementing the provisions of the draft law were revealed, confirming the compromise and contradictory nature of the reform. A brief outline of the history of the local court in the period from 1914 to 1917 is given. Attention is paid to the characterization of the volost court as a class institution that did not meet the needs of the judicial system of that time. Conclusions are drawn about the incomplete nature of the reform of the local court in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, about the untapped opportunities for improving the judicial system.