scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUALS IN COURT PROCEEDINGS

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
R. S. Prytchenko
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Judicial Protection

The article focuses on defining the concept and historical roots of ritual. The ritual component of justice is analysed. The characteristics and role of rituals in modern justice are identified. The contemporary judiciary is becoming more and more isolated, its structure more complex and branched out, each of which serves as a safeguard against the errors of the previous one. However, above the last instance, there is still something that guarantees justice and inspires confidence in the human court. This is reminded by the judicial rituals that continue to accompany the judicial process. Court rituals are not only an accepted way of doing things; they also convey information that contains the answers to many of the questions that people subconsciously ask themselves when they come into contact with the courts in particular situations. The deeper one understands the origins and traditions of the judiciary, the greater is the trust in the court, which is so necessary in the modern conditions of the development of our society, when the very idea of justice and guarantees of judicial protection is proclaimed as one of the main legal values. Today, some part, perhaps a significant one, of this functional purpose of rituals has been irrevocably lost and one can speak of the end of the era of a society of sacred traditions. Rather, we can talk about the transformation of a number of ritual forms into legal forms by reducing their religious significance, and about the transfer of sacral significance to the values of modern secular civilisation – the independence of judges, free access to justice, etc. Today’s judicial rituals are as necessary for participants in the process as they were a thousand years ago, despite the fact that not many people think of them as such, perceiving them precisely from a legal perspective. The traditions of court rituals should not only be observed as a tribute to the past, but their performance should be conscious and filled with meaning in keeping with today’s demands, for trust in a court that looks and acts beyond the perceptions and expectations of observers is hardly possible. The court, both in the Middle Ages and today, differs from various pseudo-judicial organizations (such as the emergency courts, which are based on arbitrariness) precisely in judicial rituals – the attributes of a real judicial process. Just as rituals were important in times when the court was trusted by virtue of their observance, so today the court needs rituals when the very idea of justice and guarantees of judicial protection is proclaimed to be one of the most important legal values. The court today more than ever must conform to modern ideals which are hardly more sacred values than the divine justice in the medieval court.

THE HUMAN RIGHTS FUNCTION OF THE JUDICIARY IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS: INSTITUTIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-225
Author(s):  
V.V. MOVCHAN
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
System Control ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
Judicial Protection

The article reveals the theoretical aspects of administrative legal proceedings, as one of the forms of the exercise of judicial power, the features and significance of the administrative judicial process in the mechanism of protecting the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, the analysis is given of the constitutional foundations of the human rights function of the judiciary, its essence and content, procedural actions. The author reveals the historical aspects of the formation and development of judicial protection in Russia, oreign experience and models of administrative justice are considered, the importance of administrative proceedings in the implementation of the human rights function of the judiciary in the Russian Federation when considering disputes with the participation of public authorities and citizens and the exercise of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens is revealed. The author substantiates the advantages of the judicial administrative process as a procedural form of implementation of the human rights function of the judiciary and the implementation of the constitutional right to judicial protection, analyzes the reform of the judicial system of the judicial system, the creation of courts of appeal and cassation in the system of arbitration and general jurisdiction, substantiates the conclusion that the reform of the system of courts of general jurisdiction created organizational and judicial framework for the specialization of judges and court proceedings, the system of institutional intra-system control of the legality and validity of judicial acts, institutionally and functionally ensured the implementation of the human rights function of the judiciary and the availability of judicial protection in the system of courts of general jurisdiction.

scholarly journals Access to Justice in Ukrainian Criminal Proceedings During the COVID-19 Outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 115-133
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Matters ◽  
Judicial Protection

This article examines relevant issues of criminal proceedings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have focused their efforts on protecting democratic values and ensuring not only the rights and legitimate interests of their people, but also their lives and health. At the same time, the pandemic has affected not only the economies of countries, but also their democratic development and fundamental rights, which have always been a priority of any democratic society. Courts and law enforcement authorities have faced challenges that have been and still are adequately addressed in order to ensure that the rights and legitimate interests of those seeking judicial protection are respected. Each state independently assessed the degree of risks and the extent of permissible restrictions on the rights and freedoms of persons involved in the proceedings, so the present study analyses the different approaches that have been applied. At the same time, documents of the Council of Europe for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) have gained high importance, because they, among others, have developed tools for Council of Europe member states to address the problems of ensuring access to justice in the pandemic. The generalization and widespread discussion of such experiences is important, because it will be useful for states to further improve existing legislation, taking into account best practices. Based on a study of changes introduced in the Ukrainian legislation to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease, conclusions are proposed about the nature and extent of the restrictions, as well as the principles on which they should be based and the guarantees to be provided. Recommendations that will contribute to improving the regulation of access to justice in criminal matters in a pandemic are also proposed. Key words: justice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; access to justice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; judicial control over the protection of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of persons in criminal proceedings; the investigating judge; reasonable terms of criminal proceedings; publicity and openness of court proceedings; trial by videoconference.

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 Scenario analysis of level improvement dynamics judicial protection in the digital economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (Extra-B) ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
Damir Khamitovich Valeev ◽  
Anas Gaptraufovich Nuriev
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Judicial Protection

The introduction of digital technologies is transforming many areas of public relations. The process of administering justice in this sense also cannot be an exception and, taking into account the requirements of modern realities, is actively introducing information and telecommunication technologies into its activities. The introduction of external technical tools into relations, in which the court is a mandatory participant, requires a thorough study of scenarios for the development of procedural relations from the point of view of the implementation of the constitutional right to judicial protection and access to justice in the new digital realities.    

scholarly journals Communication Strategies of the Parties in Court Proceedings and Their Reflection in Court Translation

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Galina V. Makovich
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Single Model ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Substantial Risk ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Moderation Model ◽  
Trial Participants

The paper considers the types of communication strategies in the judicial process, markers-tactical techniques that implement them. The degree to which the translator reflects the communication strategies of the participants in the trial and the validity of the translator’s use of the moderation model of judicial communication is revealed. It is shown that the translator in the trial does not act as a repeater of the text, but as its interpreter. Because of the complexity of the trial to talk about a single model of communicative behavior of the translator is not, however, overall, the model interpreter-moderator involves substantial risk for proceedings as a whole and for trial participants.

On some issues of legislation harmonization on legal proceedings and representation: comparative legal characteristics

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-387
Author(s):  
Valentina M. Bolshakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Judicial Protection

The subject of research is the issues of improving the legislation on the judicial system, legal proceedings types, further unification of duties of general jurisdiction courts and analysis of requirements for a procedural representative. The modern legal doctrine contains legislative regulations governing various spheres of social activity. One of these areas is the regula-tion of the structure and regulatory legal framework of the activities of judi-ciary, administering justice and implementing in practice the basic principles of the legal state. Method, research methodology: we illustrate the need to improve the legislation on the judicial system and legal proceedings based on the application of comparative legal and systemic research methods. The novelty of research, main conclusions: we consider social trends leading to judicial changes, we present the corresponding opinions of scientists on this issue. As a result of the conducted scientific research, we establish that some normative legal acts regulating the types of legal proceedings, the duties of general jurisdiction courts, as well as the institution of procedural representation, need to be amended in order to bring them into line with constitutional provisions and establish precise legal and technical formulations. We especially note that this study makes it possible to assess how optimal the judicial and procedural legislation is at present and how effectively it allows for judicial protection of violated or disputed rights and simplifies citizens' access to justice.

Due Process Prior to Administrative Decisions and Effective Judicial Protection in Brazil: A New Perspective?

ICL Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Perlingeiro
Keyword(s):  
Due Process ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Margin Of Appreciation ◽  
Due Process Of Law ◽  
Administrative Proceeding ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Judicial Actions

AbstractIn view of the increasing number of repetitive judicial actions in public law issues, this text proposes reconsidering the guarantees of administrative due process of law - enshrined in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 -, among them the effective independence of the administrative authorities, based on a comparative perspective between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental-European models concerning judicial protection of individual rights. The author is visibly concerned with searching for a better understanding of topics that are considered to be established dogmas in Brazilian law, such as the contradiction between the self-enforceability of administrative decisions and the need for the public authorities to initiate judicial actions against individuals; the distinction between the administrative procedure and the (judicial and non-judicial) administrative proceeding and their implications for individuals in court proceedings; impartiality without independence of the authorities in conducting a non-judicial administrative proceeding; scope of judicial review of the utilization of the margin of appreciation of factual/scientific matters in decisions made by public administrative authorities.

scholarly journals La incidencia de las nuevas tecnologías en el debido proceso.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-199
Author(s):  
Miguel de Asis Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Due Process ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

The purpose of this paper is to study the incidence of new technologies in the judicial process from the perspective of due process. To achieve its objectives, it is important to analyze how the new tools in ICTs and Artificial Intelligence are influencing the rights that must be respected in the judicial and extrajudicial processes, such as the right of access to justice, the right to legal assistance or the right to an independent and impartial tribunal. To do this, the new technological developments are classified in six legal levels of intervention.

scholarly journals Prisoners’ Access to Justice: Family Support, Prison Legal Education, and Court Proceedings

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Elijah Tukwariba Yin ◽  
Francis Kofi Korankye-Sakyi ◽  
Peter Atudiwe Atupare
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Inmate Population ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Appeal Process

This study investigates the extent of prisoners’ legal entitlements as well as how prisoners acquire legal assistance within the prison setup. It is argued that inmates’ legal entitlements within the prison bureaucracy are devoid of the ideal of access to justice. The study used the mixed-method approach in data gathering. For the quantitative aspect, a sample of 300 inmates was used. Simple random and systematic sampling techniques were used to select the respondents. For the qualitative aspect, the following participants were purposively selected: ex-convicts, a paralegal prison officer, a court warrant officer, prison after-care officer, registrars, and relatives of inmates. The analysed data showed that most inmates did not receive family support during their trial before conviction. It was also found that inmates had no access to legal materials due to lack of law libraries, yet received some form of legal education from prison staff. Even though the court proceedings of inmates formed a critical part of their appeal process, a little above half of the inmate population had access to these documents. With the advancement in Information and Communication Technology, it is recommended that all courts should be digitized with relevant logistics and improved infrastructure to smoothen access to case files.

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