The article is in memory of Vera Ivanovna Anishina, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Russian State University of Justice, Chairman of the 2nd Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The author of the article highlights the basic doctrinal provisions of the independence of the judiciary in the writings of Professor V.I. Anishina, highlights the scientist's contribution to improving the mechanism of the judge's responsibility in the Russian Federation. Many topical issues are being touched on the judiciary in the Russian Federation. The author analyzes numerous works of the scientist in the field of the principles of the administration of justice and discloses the content of the principles of independence and independence of judges. Conclusions are drawn about the need to change the system of principles of law, by adding new ones. The idea of a new qualitative approach to the formation of a system of constitutional and legal ideas of the modern development of the judiciary in the Russian Federation is being put forward. Based on the assumption of the need to reform the system of bringing the judge to justice, ideas are offered regarding the mechanism for bringing the judge to legal responsibility on the basis of the ideas of Judge V.I. Anishina, who participated in the consideration of the complaints of judges, deprived of the status of a judge and appealing decisions of the qualification collegiums of judges and the highest qualification board of judges in the country's highest judicial body, other scientists and international experience. It is concluded that the mechanism of judicial responsibility must be enshrined in the federal law "On the responsibility of a judge in the Russian Federation". Current conclusions, having elements of scientific novelty, made by the author in the work, correlate with the available sources on the topic of the research, supported by theoretical research.