Implementation problems and development trends of the principle of powers separation

Author(s):  
Laura Turkaeva

An integral component of the rule of law, which acts as an important attribute of the functioning of Russian constitutionalism institution, is the presence of public authorities, which provides a mechanism for stable gov-ernance. The modern model of the state structure of our country is based on many principles, a special place among which is given to the principle of powers separation, which became a novel of the Constitution of 1993. The operation of this principle is reduced to a triad of the following functions: en-actment of laws, monitoring their implementation, and guaranteeing protec-tion in case of violation. All three branches of government belong to the rele-vant public authorities, and are implemented independently and equally. Un-fortunately, today there is no single concept regarding the ideological and po-litical essence of this theory, although scientific ideology is in search of the primacy definition of one of three branches of government. The relevance and novelty of the problem under consideration is based on objective histori-cal data, which are a fundamental part in the formation of the national legal system. We consider the legal basis of the principle of powers separation, various author’s points of view in determining its essence, including as a constitutional principle. The legal nature of the constitutional principle is ex-plained by the legislative regulation of power between various public authori-ties and officials, as well as general powers exercised within certain areas of state activity.

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
M. A. Boiaryntseva

In the article the author determines the peculiarities of consideration and resolution of administrative disputes in foreign countries. The author emphasizes that the priority international and European principle of the implementation of justice is the observance of the rule of law. It has been determined that the contents of the precedents of the European Court of Human Rights testify that they not only contain substantive decisions, but also the norms whose application solves the problem of the interpretation of legal institutions, in particular, such as the principles of the administration of justice. The author stresses that the achievement of the requirements of ensuring the rule of law and the rule of law in accordance with European standards requires the definition of the limits of exercising discretionary powers by public administration bodies. The discretionary powers of public authorities and local self-government bodies cannot be unrestricted, and national courts should determine the limits of interference in their implementation. It is substantiated that the performed characteristic of the aforementioned normative legal acts allows us to conclude that it is necessary to study the principles of the implementation of legal proceedings in the European administrative space as a conditional "benchmark" of the development of the system of administrative courts established by the current legislation. It is stressed that the recommendations that require their implementation in the current administrative-procedural legislation include the implementation of such standards for the implementation of legal proceedings as foreseen requirements for the abolition of the right to appeal in the event that a person failed to comply with part of the court decision that provided for immediate enforcement; definition of procedure for pre-trial and extrajudicial settlement of administrative disputes. It is substantiated that borrowing from the experience of administrative tribunals established in the Anglo-Saxon judicial system, where administrative complaints are dealt with by specially authorized lawyers, is one of the possible ways of solving the problems of a significant load on the system of administrative courts of Ukraine. The author concludes that the effectiveness of the national justice system as a whole, and in particular, administrative justice, depends on the implementation and further implementation of international and foreign standards for the administration of justice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Iryna Shumliaieva

In the context of the development of home public administration, the implementation of research in terms of providing a meaningful description of the principles of the rule of law and legality in order to comply with them and ensure the activities of public authorities is becoming relevant. Therefore, the purpose of the scientific article is to implement a terminological analysis of the principles of the rule of law and legality in the activities of public administration, as an important condition for the development of public administration. The article considers terminological issues related to the definition of the essence of the concepts «rule of law», «legality», «public administration», by analyzing scientific papers and legal documents. Particular attention is paid to the definitions contained in the norms of international and European acts concerning the definition of the content of the principles of the rule of law and legality, which allowed distinguishing the relevant international and European understanding of the conceptual foundations of these concepts. It is established that at the present stage of development of the institution of public administration in the European doctrine the principle of the rule of law prevails, which is not identified with the principle of legality, as it is included in the list of relevant requirements for the implementation of the first one. The relationship between the rule of law and the rule of legality is shown, given their close relationship, formed in the process of evolution at different times during the development of social relations. As a result of research of scientific literature and normative-legal sources, it is offered to consider legality in activity of public administration in a wide public-administrative context through a prism of regulation of the state-authoritative influence on society for the purpose of its ordering. Since the vector of the rule of law and legality is aimed at both public authorities and society, it is assumed that the adoption of these principles in society involves the implementation of the requirements set out in the article to ensure compliance with public administration.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-483
Author(s):  
Terence Etherton

In a report to the Security Council of the United Nations in August 2004 the UN Secretary General said that ‘the rule of law’ is a concept at the very heart of the UN's mission. In September 2015 the UN agreed a set of Sustainable Development Goals (STGs) for 2015–30, which came into force on 1 January 2016. Goal 16.3 of the SDGs enshrines a commitment by all UN members to ‘promote the rule of law at the national and international levels, and to ensure equal access to justice for all’. In March 2016 the Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy through Law, known as the Venice Commission, published a report which said that the rule of law is a concept of universal validity. It observed that in an increasing number of cases states refer to the rule of law in their national constitutions. The rule of law is expressly mentioned in a United Kingdom statute: section 1 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 says that the Act does not adversely affect the existing constitutional principle of the rule of law. The statute, however, does not contain any definition of the rule of law; nor does any other UK statute. There is no legally binding definition anywhere.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Olha Musychenko ◽  
Yevgen Streltsov ◽  
Oleksandr Kozachenko ◽  
Olesya Vasyliaka ◽  
Larysa Chornozub

The main task of the article is to study a separate qualitative property criminal law its intelligibility. When solving the problem the definition of intelligibility of the criminal law taking into account genesis is formulated this concept and different approaches to its content, which have developed in modern law doctrine. In order to substantiate the author's approach to the definition of intelligibility of the criminal law the monitoring of normative-legal acts, decisions of national and international judicial authorities is carried out. It is shown that the term ‘intelligibility of law’ and related terms ‘clear’, ‘precise’, ‘simple’ law are actively used both in regulations and in decisions of national and international judicial authorities. However, the terminology is diverse, thereby it has been suggested in the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights to use the term ‘intelligibility’of the law, which is the most accurate and adequately reflects the assessment of the legal certainty of national laws. The general conclusion is substantiated that in modern doctrine there are three approaches to determining the legal nature of the intelligibility of the law: as a component of the rule of law, as a requirement for the language of law, as a qualitative property of law. The absence of antagonistic features in each of the approaches allowed to use the positive gains of different perceptions of the intelligibility of the criminal law and to define it.


Author(s):  
Olena Osipova

The article is devoted to the research of the problem of accurate definition and consolidation in the Code of Administrative Justice of Ukraine of the system and the content of certain principles of this type of justice, in particular competitiveness, dispositiveness, official clarification of the circumstances of the case, the rule of law and others. At the same time, special attention is paid to the peculiarities of implementation of the above principles in the consideration of court cases related to the provision of administrative services by the authorities. The essence of these features lies in certain restrictions on the principles of competitiveness and dispositiveness in order to balance the powers of the parties to the trial, which requires additional procedural guarantees and assistance to the plaintiff in the collection and extraction of evidence. In doing so, the court must preserve the impartiality and objectivity of the trial. In addition, the author emphasizes on the diversity of definitions of the content of the concept of the principle of administrative justice by scientists, and substantiates his definition of the concept of the principle of administrative justice and his vision of the list and content of the principles of administrative justice in the current Code of Administrative Justice of Ukraine. In particular, it is proposed to supplement the list of administrative justice principles with the principles of the greatest facilitation of access to court; the inevitability of the responsibility of the authorities for their misconduct, inaction or decision; non-interference of the court with the discretionary powers of the public authorities. The paper concludes that the rule of law must be stated in Art. 8 of the Constitution of Ukraine and the procedural codes, including Art. 6 of the Code of Administrative Judiciary of Ukraine, in the formulation of paragraph 41 of the report of the Venice Commission of April 4, 2014 №512 / 2009.


ICL Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-69
Author(s):  
Eszter Polgári

AbstractThe present article maps the explicit references to the rule of law in the jurisprudence of the ECtHR by examining the judgments of the Grand Chamber and the Plenary Court. On the basis of the structured analysis it seeks to identify the constitutive elements of the Court’s rule of law concept and contrast it with the author’s working definition and the position of other Council of Europe organs. The review of the case-law indicates that the Court primarily associates the rule of law with access to court, judicial safeguards, legality and democracy, and it follows a moderately thick definition of the concept including formal, procedural and some substantive elements. The rule of law references are predominantly ancillary arguments giving weight to other Convention-based considerations and it is not applied as a self-standing standard.


2009 ◽  
pp. 139-150
Author(s):  
Javier de Lucas

- This paper focuses on migration, law and democracy in order to identify where risk lies. The author concentrates on studying a recent case, the Directive on the Return of so-called illegal immigrants (sans papiers) approved by the European Parliament on 18 June 2008. The usual point of view, that of the dominant discourse, maintains that today's migratory movements constitute one of the structural factors that justify the definition of our societies as the "Risk Society". According to this point of view, the migratory flows entail a risk for social cohesion and even a destabilising potential for both democracy and the rule of law. The risk is illustrated by the menacing image of invasion threatening at our doors, hence the classical argument of the "demographic bomb" as the resource of poor countries. The author's thesis sustains that it is precisely our responses, in the form of migratory policy tools, that constitute a risk factor. Some of these tools, including this Directive, have become destabilising elements of the rules of the game and, moreover, of the values of the rule of law and of democracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-398
Author(s):  
David Parra Gómez

Democracy is an instrument at the service of a noble purpose: to ensure the freedom and equality of all citizens by guaranteeing the civil, political and social rights contained in constitutional texts. Among the great principles on which this instrument rests is the division of powers, which consists, substantially, in the fact that power is not concentrated, but that the various functions of the State are exercised by different bodies, which, moreover, control each other. Well, the increasingly aggressive interference of the Executive and, to a lesser extent, the Legislative in material spheres that should be reserved exclusively for the Judiciary, violates this principle and, for this reason, distorts the idea of democracy, an alarming trend that, for some time now, are observed in European Union countries such as Hungary, Poland and Spain. Preventing the alarming degradation of European democracy, of which these three countries are an example, requires not only more than necessary institutional reforms to ensure respect for these principles and prevent the arbitrariness of the public authorities, but also a media network and an education system that explains and promotes these values and principles, that is, one that makes citizens aware of and defend constitutionalism. Keywords: Rule of law; Democracy; Separation of powers; judicial independence; Europe.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinnari Bhatt

AbstractOne way of understanding the exile of the Chagos Islanders and their inability to return to their ancestral land is through a reading of the case from a perspective of post-colonial legal scholarship. Chagossians have strong legal rights to land and remedies of compensation and return through a purposive application of the international legal definition of Indigenous, Magna Carta right to abode and international human rights law that could address their dispossession. Yet, the inability of those rights to be meaningfully applied has been constrained because of the post-colonial way they are legally interpreted, creating a legal vacuum in which basic fairness and substantive equality have been routinely compromised. Drawing attention to the continued legal denial of return in the context of decolonisation, ongoing colonialism and the rule of law makes sense of the legal record and explains the expulsion of the islanders despite the moral merits of return.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
Ida Ayu Mas lndriani ◽  
Ni Made Jaya Senastri ◽  
Ni Made Puspasutari Ujianti

Intellectual property rights including industrial designs. The idea of ​​industrial design safety is based on the belief that human imagination, taste and initiative are closely linked to industrial design. The state grants protection against new industrial designs. The definition of the rule of law used in the legal protection of industrial designs is based on Law No. 31 of 2000. One of the components in this case is the protection of human rights which is the guideline for the legal protection of industrial designs. There are two forms of industrial design legal protection, which include preventive legal protection and repressive legal protection. This study aims to examine the form of legal protection for industrial designs based on Law No. 31 of 2000 and analyze the legal implications if the design rights holder does not register their industrial designs. This research was designed using normative research with a conceptual approach. The data used are primary and secondary data obtained through documentation and recording. The results of the study indicate that preventive legal protection is contained in the Act which is used to prevent violations and a description of the implementation of obligations while repressive legal protection is security in the form of sanctions for violations that have been committed. In view of this and considering the existence of protection in the form of the industrial design law, the designer can prevent the occurrence of plagiarism of his industrial design by registering his industrial design.


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