First legal action to restore local people's courts in the Chelyabinsk region after the civil war

In this article the author reveals little-known pages on the organizational and legal measures in the Chelyabinsk region to restore local people's courts after the Civil war. Organization and management of General courts activities as well as tribunals were carried out by the Department of justice of the Chelyabinsk provincial revolutionary Committee. Department of justice and the Siberia Council of people's judges sent a circular "On civil and criminal cases, made in abolished judicial institutions". All civil pending proceedings were declared as finished, all the finished cases were proclaimed and void. Сriminal proceedings were estimated in a different way. On the one hand, there was one general rule that stopped all proceedings, and all resolutions, definitions and sentences were declared invalid. All this facts are valid on paper. Because, on the other hand, defendants could be re-prosecuted if they "are subject to liability according to the established decisions of the Soviet government." The Soviet court and the investigating authorities could use evidence obtained by law enforcement of the white local governments in the production of these proceedings, for example, "interviewing witnesses, search or inspection".