This article is devoted to the analysis of positions of the article 375 of Criminal Code of Ukraine, which recently kept the action, while Constitutional Court of Ukraine did not make decision about it’s unconstitutionality. In work we analyzed the Constitutional Court’s decisions and practice, analyzed possible options for criminalization and decriminalization in Ukrainian criminal law. The practice of legal application about article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, exactly, the rendering by a judge of a knowingly unjust decision. The focus is on the fact that the courts are deciding these cases, in some aspects, they understand the scope of the named norm of criminal law differently, which leads to different enforcement. In this regard, we investigated diametrically opposed positions of reputable scientists regarding this norm and possible options of its new edition. Authorities also disagree with the separate opinion of the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, in regard to contradictions of the constitutional norms, which regulate the process of adopting laws to declare them unconstitutional, and the legal force of such decisions. The practice of the European Court of Human Rights is also an important part of the work, which has repeatedly noted a similar problem in the legal system of Ukraine. Therefore, apart from the constitutionality of the norm of rendering a court decision in an inappropriate manner, the work of the authors includes an important discussion of the systemic gap that exists in the context of the process of adoption and/or rejection of the law. It should also be noted that the court practice regarding article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is quite varied, which today does not make it possible to form some unified and uncontroversial approaches asto whatrole the existence of the Criminal Code's article on a judge's rendering of an unjust decision in the relevant version has had for some time. Summarizing the main points, we believe that the legislator should avoid ambiguous and controversial formulations in the disposition of the articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in future. For an effective solution of this problem there is a project, which is currently being worked on and which is called to impose liability for rendering an invalid verdict, but to do it in those kind of form, so that the body of constitutional jurisdiction would not have any claims against it in the context of unconstitutionality. Exactly this legal balance will allow us to speak about the closeness to the sphere of criminal law to the principles and standards of the rule of law, that are inherent in most states with a developed legal system.
In the Absence of the Rule of Law: Everyday Lawyering, Dignity and Resistance in Myanmar’s ‘Disciplined Democracy’
