Access to Justice: Ukraine and Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1122
Author(s):  
Tetiana M. BREZINA ◽  
Nadiia P. BORTNYK ◽  
Iryna Yu. KHOMYSHYN
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
European Experience ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Right Of Access

The paper examines the right of access to justice through the lens of domestic and European experience. The purpose of the study is to improve the theoretical and legal provisions of the content of the right of access to justice based on European experience, the formation of its modern concept, including the construction of proposals for defining this concept in the domestic doctrine of the judiciary. The methodological basis of the study comprises a set of methods that have been comprehensively used to achieve the purposes of this paper: the study of the legal nature of the right of access to justice, the establishment of its structural elements, the formulation of conclusions and proposals for the implementation of European Court of Human Rights standards in Ukrainian legislation was carried out with the use of system-structural and Aristotelian methods. It is noted that the access to justice is the availability, legal consolidation, and direct functioning of guarantees stipulated by law, which allow everyone to freely exercise their right to judicial protection and restoration of the violated right. It is concluded that the right to judicial protection cannot be exercised without a mechanism of access to justice and legal regulation. Ukraine, as a full subject of international law, must guarantee, based on universal standards, the personal right of every individual to free access to justice. However, identification of the social nature of the right of access to justice, for any state, including Ukraine, means an assertion of a fairly wide margin of appreciation both upon specifying forms of support for citizens to exercise the right, and upon determining the categories of citizens who need such support. This obliges the legislator to respect the constitutional principles of justice, equality, proportionality, as well as stability and guarantee of human and civil rights in Ukraine.

scholarly journals O direito de acesso à justiça efetiva e em tempo razoável e o pacto de San José da Costa Rica na proteção do direito à saúde

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Juliane Caravieri Martins ◽  
◽  
Igor Vinícius de Lima Afonso ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
San Jose ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Right Of Access

This research examines the right of access to justice – fair, effective and timely judicial protection – from the perspective of the American Convention on Human Rights, also known as the Pact of San José of Costa Rica, and Brazilian constitutional norms, verifying wether they protected the right to health in order to realize social justice. Furthermore, this study questiones whether this Pact contributed to the protection of the right to health for Brazilians. In other words, this paper investigates if this international treaty contributed to the promotion of the right to health in Brazil by allowing citizens, through the phenomenon of judicialization of public policies, access to fairer and more effective judicial protection.

scholarly journals GUARANTEES OF ACCESS TO ADMINISTRATIVE JUDICIARY

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection

Introduction. Administrative proceedings for Ukrainian administrative law, as well as for the administrative law of most post-Soviet states, are a relatively new legal phenomenon. This presupposes the existence of many problems of its formation, which are connected, in particular, with the socio-political transformations that are still going on. These are, first of all, such problems as the formation and legislative consolidation of the legal basis for guaranteeing access and protection in the administrative court. Unhindered access to court and access to justice are necessary conditions for the exercise of the constitutional right to judicial protection. The main results of the study. Access to justice is one of the prerequisites for the establishment of this branch of government as a full-fledged and self-sufficient mechanism for the protection of human rights and freedoms. The Constitution of Ukraine laid the foundations for the formation of access to justice, stipulating that recourse to the court for the protection of human and civil rights and freedoms is guaranteed directly on the basis of the Basic Law. The influence of international normative legal acts on the development of national legislation regulating a person's right to apply to an administrative court for protection was considered. The Constitution of Ukraine guarantees the right of a person to judicial protection and appeal against decisions, actions or omissions of public authorities, local governments, officials and officials. Administrative justice is called upon to implement this provision. Conclusions. The article determined that the right to appeal against decisions, actions or omissions of public authorities, local governments, officials and officials, a component of which is the right to go to court (right to access to court proceedings), is not abstract, but has a connection. connection with the right of a particular person in whose interests the trial is taking place, and with his conviction that the state, represented by public authorities and local governments, officials and officials have unlawfully interfered with his rights or freedoms. The obligatory feature of a public law dispute was that a person believes that there is a violation of his rights and freedoms as a result of the performance or non-performance of government functions. In order to go to court, a person who is a plaintiff must have a substantive legal interest in resolving a public law dispute. The article highlighted and analyzed some problems of ensuring access to justice by administrative courts in resolving public law disputes. His own vision for solving and eliminating the problems of access to justice in administrative proceedings is offered.

scholarly journals RETURN OF COURT FEE IN CONNECTION WITH LEAVING THE APPLICATION WITHOUT CONSIDERATION IN THE CIVIL PROCEEDINGS OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Ulyana Vorobel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Civil Case ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Civil Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection

The article researches the peculiarities of return of court fees in connection with the completion of a civil case without a court judgement in the form of leaving the application without consideration of legal regulation, analyzes the issues of this institute in judicial practice, and provides suggestions for improving its legal regulation. Attention has been drawn to the fact that since the court fee is one of the basic categories of access to justice, and therefore an element of the right of a person to judicial protection enjoyment, and the need to ensure the balance of interests of the state and the individual in regulating the legal basis of court fees payment, the grounds for the application of this procedural institute must be exhaustive and may not be subject to extended interpretation. Based on the comparative analysis of the legal regulation of the return of court fees institute, and in particular the legislative regulation of such grounds for its application as completion of civil proceedings without a court judgement in the form of leaving the application without consideration, it was found a legislative tendency to reduce the list of the very grounds for leaving the application without consideration, with the use of which the return of court fees is allowed. Examples of jurisprudence in the field of application of each ground of leaving the application without consideration through the prism of the institute of return of court fees have been given. Attention has been drawn to the fact that although in the process of amending the civil procedural legislation, which took place with the adoption of the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Commercial Procedural Code of Ukraine, Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine, Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine and other legislative acts", such grounds as leaving by the plaintiff (his/her representative) of the courtroom was removed from the "general list" of grounds for leaving the application without consideration under Part 1 of Art. 257 CPC of Ukraine, it still exists, because it was left by the legislator in the article governing the consequences of non-appearance at the hearing of the parties (Part 6 of Art. 223 CPC of Ukraine). It has been constituted that item 4 of Part 1 Art. 7 of the Law of Ukraine "On Court Fees" provides the opportunity to return the court fee in case of completion of a civil case without a court judgement in the form of leaving the application without consideration on all grounds except those that constitute exceptions by law, and in particular the grounds established by items 3, 5 and 9 of Part 1 Art. 257 CPC of Ukraine, as well as Part 6 of Art. 223 CPC of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of protection of private rights by non-jurisdiction methods of settlement of legal disputes (conflicts)

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Iryna YEFREMOVA
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
Private Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection

Introduction. Adoption of new laws of civil and substantive law, the novelty of legal relations governed by the rules of these laws, the complexity of civil conflicts arising from these legal relations, require a high level of legal protection, compliance with the rule of law by all members of society. Only the law allows interested parties to choose the form of protection. This form can be traditional – jurisdictional (provides for the establishment of a body and procedure for the protection of violated rights), and non-jurisdictional (but certainly allowed by law), which may resort to interested parties. obstacle to the exercise of the right. Resolution of legal conflicts is possible not only through a jurisdictional form of protection. A non-jurisdictional form of protection of civil rights is the independent protection of a person of his violated rights. That is, the person does not apply to the competent state authorities. In fact, it is the commission of actual actions aimed at protecting and securing their personal property and other non-property rights. The purpose of the paper is a thorough study of models of non-jurisdictional protection of property rights in the system of protection of civil rights by analyzing the theoretical and practical aspects of using alternative methods of protection of private rights in general and mediation. Result. It is determined that the non-jurisdictional form of protection of civil rights is the actions of citizens and organizations aimed at protecting their own civil rights, freedoms, and legally protected interests. It is noted that these actions are carried out and implemented by eligible entities independently, without seeking legal assistance from government agencies and structures, as well as officials. It is determined that the mechanism of legal protection is implemented in non-jurisdictional ways in the field of legal regulation when it is necessary to overcome and eliminate obstacles that arise in the exercise of rights and legitimate interests of the subject of law, in other words – to quickly protect (ensure) legal status. It is determined that in international practice, namely in European countries, the basis of non-jurisdictional protection of property rights is mainly in the use of negotiation and mediation procedures. Non-jurisdictional form, which is usually local in nature, is achieved as a result of actual actions, occurs not in jurisdictional or procedural forms, but within the protected substantive legal relations, which are the subjects of such legal relations (usually imply The main difference between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional forms of protection of rights is that the protection of rights in jurisdictional form is carried out by the competent state and public authorities with each of them a certain procedural order of activity, while protection in a non-jurisdictional form takes place within the framework of a substantive legal relationship and is carried out by the parties themselves in the legal relationship. Conclusion. The study proves that in Ukraine, priority should be given to the development of various forms of out-of-court dispute resolution. The basis for this should be the legislative consolidation of out-of-court settlement of civil disputes as one of the basic principles of protection of violated private rights (of course, without revoking or replacing the right to judicial protection). Non-jurisdictional methods of protection of private rights are defined in the legislation of Ukraine and can be used due to the dispositive nature of the civil law method of regulation. However, this is insufficient, as participants in civil legal relations in case of violation of their rights are primarily confronted in the law with a defined right to judicial protection of violated rights, and often consider the court as the only possible form of protection.

scholarly journals Constitutional Principles of Legal Regulation of Court Fees in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Buryi
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
State Of The Environment

This article presents a comparative analysis of the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine and the Law of Ukraine “On Court Fees”.The author emphasizes that the Constitution of Ukraine establishes an axiological basis for the legal regulation of the court fees and, at the same time, defines the relevant categories of cases, access to judicial protection in which should not be the subject to significant restrictions or should not be limited at all, namely in the cases of: challenging the decisions, actions or omissions of public authorities, local governments and officials; protection of the right to own property; protection of honour and dignity and business reputation; free access to the information about the state of the environment, the quality of food and household items, and others. The court fee in the constitutional justice is also singled out, which is substantiated by the special procedural and essential nature of the constitutional complaint. The author disputes the possibility of implementation of the court fee for filing a constitutional complaint, the doubtfulness of which is explained by the normative form of the constitutional complaint that does not provide a direct review of the court decision. Emphasis is placed on the provisions of the Constitution, which support the need to reform the existing concept of regulation of court fees, in particular the change in access to appeals and cassation appeals from progressive to the regressive court fee rate. It is emphasized that the Law of Ukraine “On Court Fees” does not fully comply with the Constitution of Ukraine. It is concluded that the Constitution of Ukraine provides the individualization of the amount of court fees that should depend on the stage of the proceedings, the category of the case, and the relevant range of entities that should be exempt from the court fees.

scholarly journals Constitutional Complaint in Ukraine: The Interrelation Between the Protection of Subjective Civil Rights and Constitutional Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 341-354
Author(s):  
Oleksandr D. Krupchan ◽  
◽  
Volodymyr V. Kochyn ◽  
Vitalii I. Zaporozhets ◽  
Mykyta V. Bernatskyi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Real Possibility ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Subjective Rights

The real possibility of judicial protection of individual rights and freedoms is a key element of effective legal regulation, as well as the manifestation of the rule of law. The new institution of the constitutional complaint lies in a rather specific plane, being both a part of the national system of protection of individual rights and freedoms and an element of constitutional control that ensures the supremacy of the Constitution of Ukraine. The relevance of this study is conditioned by the right of a citizen to complain about the mechanism of legal regulation, taking the provisions of the Constitution as an example. The purpose of the study is to consider the specific features of the interrelation between the protection of subjective civil rights and constitutional control. This study analyses the theoretical aspects, legislative regulation, and practice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. It was concluded that subjective rights and interests established by law might be violated, unrecognised or challenged only at the stages of legal implementation or enforcement.

Achieving Balance between Private and Public Interests in Arbitration Disputes

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Said Kazhlaev
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Culture And Development ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection

The article is devoted to the issue of achieving balance between private and public interests in arbitration disputes. The author notes that arbitration proceedings as one of the alternative forms of civil rights protection, guarantee the realization by the parties of the right to freedom of contracts and the right to judicial protection in a voluntarily elected procedural form. The author draws attention to the fact that a legislator can impose certain restrictions, based on the need to ensure balance between private and public interests depending on the object of the dispute, its social importance, conditions of civil circulation, legal culture and development of the national social and economic system. The article contains proposals for amendments and additions to the new Federal Law “On Arbitration (Arbitration Proceedings) in the Russian Federation”. The author concludes that the new task of legal regulation is the creation of favorable legal environment for the functioning of arbitration courts which being an institute of civil society, will contribute to more effective functioning of national economy under the conditions of a civilized market, implementation of stability in economy management and attractiveness of the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation as a venue to conduct arbitration with participation of foreign countries.

The right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliya Samovich
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
European Court ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Judicial Procedure ◽  
The Right ◽  
Judicial Protection

The manual is devoted to making individual complaints to the European Court of human rights: peculiarities of realization of the right to appeal, conditions of admissibility and the judicial procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. The author analyses some “autonomous concepts” used in the court's case law and touches upon the possibility of limiting the right to judicial protection. The article deals with the formation and development of the individual's rights to international judicial protection, as well as the protection of human rights in universal quasi-judicial international bodies and regional judicial institutions of the European Union and the Organization of American States. This publication includes a material containing an analysis of recent changes in the legal regulation of the Institute of individual complaints. The manual is recommended for students of educational organizations of higher education, studying in the areas of bachelor's and master's degree “Jurisprudence”.

Simoncioni v. Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-406
Author(s):  
Riccardo Pavoni
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Sovereign Immunity ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
Compensation Claims ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

With Judgment No. 238/2014, the Italian Constitutional Court (hereinafter Court) quashed the Italian legislation setting out the obligation to comply with the sections of the 2012 decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy; Greece intervening) (Jurisdictional Immunities or Germany v. Italy) that uphold the rule of sovereign immunity with respect to compensation claims in Italian courts based on grave breaches of human rights, including—in the first place—the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Court found the legislation to be incompatible with Articles 2 and 24 of the Italian Constitution, which secure the protection of inviolable human rights and the right of access to justice (operative paras. 1, 2).

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