Standards of Fair Justice: Problems of Form and Content
The article discusses how the national legislation in the majority of democratic states and the universally recognized international instruments provide the right to a fair trial. The right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and a number of other international instruments, and the “right to judicial protection of constitutional rights and freedoms” in the interpretation of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation are compared. The author states that a fair judicial procedure is not always clearly entail a fair judgment. The problems of abuse of the right to judicial protection are discussed. It is concluded that the failure to protect an illusory or contrived rights can be an adequate means of countering the use of the right to judicial protection which is not in accordance with its intended purpose.