Kekhlerov, who is a member of the presidential reform commission, suggested that the Prosecutor-General's Office should wait until Russia improves its living standards and grows more respectful of the law before it renounces some of its many powers. He also said that the Prosecutor-General's Office is society's last resort to protest against corrupted judges. Another obstacle to extensive judicial reform will be purely financial. But that sum will not cover the cost of training more specialized judges and other needed changes. At least, that's how it work in practice, that's what we are confronted with every day.
Some judges also complain about the reform.
At a meeting last week, judges attacked the authors of the draft reform, accusing them of trying to dilute judicial independence by widening the existing college of judges responsible for appointing and, especially, for suspending judges. Reformists argue that this measure would reduce the protection of incompetent or corrupt judges. But critics reply that judges' independence would be called into question by more outside pressure put on judges who already feel enough political heat.