Magistrate (Russia)

In the judiciary of Russia an office of the magistrate or justice of the peace (мировой судья), is a judge that handles minor civil and criminal cases. Magistrates handle criminal cases where imprisonment is for less than three years for cases such as slander, petty hooliganism, public drunkenness, serious traffic violations of a non-criminal nature, minor civil cases such as simple divorces, some property cases, disputes over land, some labor cases, as well as some federal administrative law cases.

In the Russian Empire the concept of magistrates' courts (Russian: мировой суд) existed (there is none in modern Russia).