Improvement of judicial representation: modern view

Purpose: To analyse initiatives of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of professionalizing of judicial representation. Methodology: Historical, comparative and legal and formally legal methods were used. Results: The author has paid attention to system approach of the highest judicial authority to a question of professionalizing of judicial representation which assumes not only introduction of mandatory requirements to qualification of judicial representatives, but also development of forms of payment of legal aid for increase in its availability. Foreign experience of a regulation of judicial representation is in details analysed. Questions of investment into trials are considered. Novelty/originality/value: Article has the high scientific value as is one of the first attempts in a complex to consider a current scientific and practical problem.