On the control and supervisory functions of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

The subject of the study is the functions of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, special attention is paid to the control and supervisory function. The purpose of the study is to identify defects in regulatory legal acts that fix the list and content of the functions of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, as well as to find ways to correct them. The research methodology is based on systematic and complex approaches, includes a set of general scientific and private scientific research methods, including methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, system-structural, logical, formal legal, etc. The authors analyzed a set of legal acts regulating the organizational and legal aspects of the implementation of the functions of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. According to the results of the study, the following main results were obtained: the imperfections of the Regulations on the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation were revealed, including the confusion of the concepts of "functions", "powers", "area of jurisdiction", going beyond the functions of the Ministry of Justice of Russia to the level of discretion of the federal legislator, as well as insufficient specification of the powers of the Ministry of Justice of Russia in areas of the legal organization of local self-government; the author's classification is proposed, which allows improving the situation on the basis of systematization and clarification of the content of the functions performed by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation; the peculiarities of the implementation of the control and supervisory function of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in relation to various subjects of law subject to verification are revealed; it is substantiated that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, together with the Federal Notary Chamber, should eliminate contradictions between the Code of Professional Ethics of notaries and the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The conclusions and results obtained can be used in the activities of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, when conducting further legal research in the field of public law.

The Russian Ministry of Justice, functions, powers, area of jurisdiction, federal discretion, functions classification, functions content, control and supervisory function, notary, advocacy