scholarly journals Legal nature of social justice as an integral part of the principle of justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 180-184
Author(s):  
I.P. Bakhnovskaya ◽  
O.A. Slobodyska
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Principle Of Legality

The article presents and solves the scientific problem of identifying the legal nature and content of social justice as an integral part of the principle of justice. The theoretical and normative basis of the study were scientific works of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of jurisprudence, philosophy, political science, sociology, history. They are devoted to the general problems of the essence of the principle of justice, its value and normative content, social and legal nature of the principle of justice, issues of legal certainty and stability of legal regulation, specific problems of implementation of the constitutional principle of justice. The problem of justice, namely social justice becomes especially relevant in the context of globalization. The practice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine shows that the Constitution of Ukraine does not enshrine the principle of social justice in a direct form, but the entire legal system is based on the idea of justice. It is established that justice essentially reflects the realities of a society, the level of its cultural and legal maturity. It can manifest itself at different social levels, in different spatial and temporal dimensions. Thus, correlating the concepts of justice and law, justice can be considered as a legal standard with which the real socio-economic, political, financial, moral and ideological relations. Justice is not only a moral, philosophical category, but, first of all, a legal one. Justice is a legal phenomenon that relates to the very essence of law and is the distinguishing feature between law and the principles of law. In addition, it is a phenomenon of morality, because it is an idea that determines the moral principles of society. It should be noted that in some cases the application of the principle of justice is complicated, for example, when it conflicts with the principle of legality. Attention is drawn to the fact that in our state the principle of justice is not fully implemented. Social justice is the most important social value, a creative phenomenon that contributes to the reform of society on the basis of democ-racy and humanism.

scholarly journals PRACTICAL AND LEGAL FEATURES OF USE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS PHYSICAL FORCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (80) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
V.A. Kaznazcheev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Principle Of Legality

The presented research is devoted to the practical and legal features of the use of physical force by employees of law enforcement agencies. The work contains a legal analysis of these issues. The article examines the legal nature of this special coercion measure and outlines the legal significance of observing the principle of legality in its application. The scientific study provides examples of domestic and foreign practices concerning the consequences of violation of the requirements of the law by officials. The paper analyzes the statistical information on the state of crime for the first half of 2020 presented on the official portal of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, and notes that issues related to abuse of authority by employees of power structures are of particular public and legal interest. Practice shows that the abuse of power by law enforcement officers in the use of physical force can lead to the emergence of public protests, reaching a wide scale. This fact necessitates a thorough study of the issues that arise in the course of the use of physical force by powerful subjects. The author outlines his own position on this topic, outlines the problems of legal regulation of the considered area of legal relations and suggests possible ways to resolve them.

scholarly journals Correlation between the principle of justice and legal axioms

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Anton Nikolaevich Rundkvist
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Primary Reference ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
New Perspective

The objects of this research are the principle of justice as a universal fundamental, cornerstone and key cohesive general legal superprinciple and the legal axioms as transmitters of most objectified legal justice reflected in simple and clear formulations. The subject of this research is correlation between the aforementioned concepts, which allows looking at the problem of indeterminacy of the content of the principle of justice from a new perspective, namely through indicating the violation of legal axioms as one of criterions of ultimate injustice. Methodological framework is comprised of the general scientific methods of deduction, induction, analysis and synthesis, as well as sociological method of content analysis used examination of the materials of law enforcement practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The work yielded the following results: 1) substantiation is made on the key role of the principle of justice in law as a whole; 2) an original definition is given to the legal axioms ; 3) demarcation is drawn between legal axioms and legal principles in accordance with the criteria of external manifestation, evidence of conformity or nonconformity, nature of action, and depending on the presence or absence of systemic links, which is important from theoretical and practical perspectives, 4) a direct correlation is established between noncompliance with legal axioms and the loss of baseline claim to justice by legal regulation. The theoretical novelty of this work consists in the fact that legal axioms that establish the generally accepted imperative rules are viewed as a primary reference point for resolving the issue on possible violation of the principle of justice

scholarly journals FORMS OF COMPLETION OF PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION: NEWS OF LEGISLATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
A. Drahonenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Organized Activities ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Telecommunication System ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Principle Of Legality

The article is devoted to the study of certain issues related to the procedural order of completion of the pre-trial investigation and the latest changes that have been made to the criminal procedure legislation. Some shortcomings of the legal regulation of the researched institute are pointed out, in particular, the order of granting access to materials of criminal proceedings, term for acquaintance with them. Peculiarities and problematic issues of the end of the pre-trial investigation with the use of the information and telecommunication system of the pre-trial investigation are considered. A necessary condition for ensuring the constitutional principle of legality in criminal proceedings is the properly organized activities of the pre-trial investigation, prosecutor and court to establish all the facts of the criminal offense in order to achieve objective truth. Legitimate and reasonable decision-making on the termination of the pre-trial investigation ensures the implementation of the tasks of criminal proceedings, which are provided by Article 2 of the CPC of Ukraine. Thus, the legislator notes that the observance of legal procedure at the end of the pre-trial investigation is one of the main guarantees of protection of the rights and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings. Such protection should take place through the strict performance of their duties by authorized bodies and officials. It has been established that changes in the legislation significantly facilitate the work of the defense and other participants in the process of opening and reviewing the materials of criminal proceedings. In addition, these changes will eliminate the possibility for officials conducting inquiries and pre-trial investigations to make corrections or falsifications of criminal proceedings at various stages of the investigation and after its completion. After all, the main protocols and other procedural documents will be uploaded to electronic systems. Unauthorized interference with the operation of electronic information and telecommunication systems will be punished.

PRINCIPLE OF DIRECT FORCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL RIGHTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 114-140
Author(s):  
NATALIA V. KOLOTOVA
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Government

International standards on human rights and Constitution of the Russian Federation put social rights on a par with civil and political rights what is interpreted as a necessity to provide them with equitable and efficient remedy, extension to them of the general principles of effect of human rights and the related remedial procedures. However, the specifics of the nature of social rights introduces its adjustments, at times, fairly significant ones. Thus, although Article 18 of RF Constitution proclaims the principle of direct force for all human rights, social rights primarily produce effect indirectly. Irrespective of the distinctions in the content of two principles — more generalized principle of direct effect of constitutional provisions and direct force of human rights; it is majorly recognized in the national doctrine of the constitutional right that the indirect force of social rights does not contradict to the general principle of direct effect of constitutional provisions. The indirect force of constitutional social rights is conditioned by the necessity of their specification and detalization in the laws; this can be stated in the rule itself or stem from a high degree of abstractness of social provisions formulated in the norms-standards and norms-principles. The indirect force manifests itself in the fact that courts when hearing cases related to challenging the provisions of social legislation apply the norms of the Constitution only in relationship with the specifying rules of branches of law referring to the fundamental constitutional principles.RF Constitutional Court distinguishes the rights "directly recognized by the Constitution" and "acquired by virtue of law" and pursues different policies in respect of their interpretation. The Court proceeds from the fact that the direct force of social rights is primarily aimed at the legislator who may not adopt laws unreasonably narrowing the scope of legal regulation of such rights thus interprets constitutional social rights in aggregate with other constitutional principles — support of citizens’ confidence in law and acts of the government, legal certainty and reasonable stability of legal regulation, proportionality etc.The highlighted specifics requires doctrinal comprehension and development of theoretical approaches to the content of a constitutional principle of direct force of human rights in the area of social rights, determination of legal tools and me cha-nisms of their remedy including via a proper judicial procedure.

HAK MENDAHULUI UPAH PEKERJA DALAM PERKARA KEPAILITAN (Analisis Putusan MK No. 18/PUU-VI/2008 Jo No. 67/PUU-XI/2013)

BUANA ILMU ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Abas
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
The People ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Subjects

ABSTRAK Hak mendahului (hak preferen) upah pekerja dalam perkara kepailitan perusahaan sebaiknya dilakukan dengan penerapan asas kepastian hukum dan keadilan serta manfaat, hal ini dimaksudkan agar efektivitas penerapan dan pelaksanaan dari putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi(MK) No. 67/PUU-XI/2013 yang menyatakan upah pekerja harus didahulukan dapat terlaksana dengan baik. Terdapat benturan kepentingan antara kreditor saat terjadi kepailitan dan mudahnya syarat kepailitan. Putusan MK pertama lebih mengedepankan asas kepastian hukum daripada asas keadilan dan sependapat dengan pemerintah lebih melindungi investor daripada pekerja. MK menolak permohonan para Pemohon. Putusan MK kedua Majelis hakim bersifat responsif dalam memutus permohonan, menjunjung tinggi nilai keadilan berdasarkan pada nilai-nilai kemanusiaan dengan mempertimbangkan subjek hukum, objek hukum dan risiko yang timbul akibat kepilitan. MK menerima permohonan para Pemohon sebagian. Inkonsistensi penegakkan hukum bertentangan dengan konsep negara kesejahteraan dimana tugas negara memikul tanggungjawab mewujudkan keadilan sosial, kesejahteraan umum dan sebesar-besarnya untuk kemakmuran rakyat. Keadilan terhadap kedudukan pekerja dengan kreditor lainnya dapat terwujud apabila masyarakat menganut prinsip keadilan yang sama atau mempunyai pokok pikiran yang sama dalam perkara kepailitan. Kata Kunci : “ Hak Preferen, Upah Pekerja, Kepailitan”. ABSTRACT Preemptive rights (preferential rights) of workers' wages in the case of corporate bankruptcy should be carried out with the application of the principle of legal certainty and justice and benefits, this is intended so that the effectiveness of the implementation and implementation of the Constitutional Court decision No. 67 / PUU-XI / 2013 which states that workers' wages must take precedence can be carried out well. There is a conflict of interest between creditors when bankruptcy occurs and easy bankruptcy requirements. The first decision of the Constitutional Court to prioritize the principle of legal certainty over the principle of justice and agree with the government to protect investors more than workers. The Court rejected the Petitioners' petition. The second Constitutional Court verdict The panel of judges is responsive in deciding the petition, upholding the value of justice based on human values by considering legal subjects, legal objects and risks arising from constriction. The Court accepted the request of the Petitioners in part. The inconsistency in enforcing the law contradicts the concept of a welfare state where the duty of the state to assume responsibility is to realize social justice, public welfare and as much as possible for the prosperity of the people. Justice towards the position of workers with other creditors can be realized if the community adheres to the same principle of justice or has the same subject matter in bankruptcy cases. Keywords: "Preferential Rights, Workers' Wages, Bankruptcy".

scholarly journals The Theory of Criminal Law Should Not Be Reduced to the Analysis and Criticism of Criminal Legislation

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Anatoly Naumov
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Principle Of Legality

In both normative and sociological senses criminal law includes three components — criminal legislation, judicial practice, and criminal law doctrine, and the development of this branch of law is possible only in their unity. The criminal law doctrine is to a certain extent superior to the other components of the "triad" and involves the development of the branch’s principles, goals and objectives. At the same time, the improvement of criminal law is not the only goal of the theory of criminal law. It should not be limited only to criticism of the current legislation and proposals for its improvement. However, the vast majority of modern domestic criminal law publications, such as monographs, articles in legal periodicals, dissertations, are devoted to criticism of the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Indeed, the current criminal law is not perfect, but the "imbalance" of research into the "law-making" side significantly reduces the scope of criminal law doctrine. And there will always be demand for theoretical studies on the analysis of the subject and method, system and objectives of criminal law, its sources.Debatable, for example, still is the issue of the legal nature of the decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and, in particular, the judgments of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court are a special kind of judicial interpretation and a fairly reliable tool for the courts to understand "the letter of the criminal law" and it’s applicability to the particular case. As for the assessment of the legal nature of the judgments of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the criminal law doctrine often fails to notice that they touch upon the methodological problems of the theory of criminal law. In relation to a number of criminal law prohibitions, judgments of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation are a source of criminal law, along with the Criminal Code. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation specified the most important principle of criminal law — the principle of legality and clarified the characteristics of criminality of socially dangerous acts prohibited by criminal law, which is directly related to the issue of criminal liability. In this sense, the Constitutional Court formulated a new and important addition to the content of the principle of legality — the certainty of criminal law rules, and, first of all, the criminal law prohibitions. Thus, the judicial authority overtook the criminal law doctrine in solving one of the most important issues for criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals Constitutional-legal conditions for application of international treaties of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Egor Krivosheev
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

This article discusses the questions of application of international treaties concluded on behalf of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, federal executive branches, or authorized organizations. The subject of this research is the constitutional norms of the Russian Federation and other normative legal acts that regulate the procedure for concluding, executing and terminating the international treaties of the Russian Federation, legal provisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, as well as scientific works on the topic. Special attention is given to the analysis of the constitutional principle that the international treaties of the Russian Federation are part of the legal system of the country. The author reveals the gaps in the current legislation of the Russian Federation specifying the constitutional provisions on the conditions for application of international treaties in the Russian Federation. It is established that the 2020 constitutional reform has improved the mechanism for protecting state sovereignty, and led to formulation of the constitutional-legal condition for application of the decisions of intergovernmental bodies adopted based on the provisions of international treaties of the Russian Federation. The article makes recommendations for the improvement of constitutional-legal regulation of application of international treaties of the Russian Federation. The conclusion is drawn on the existence of mandatory (compliance of the international treaty with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, its formalization, enactment, and consent to its universal binding), as well as optional (publication of domestic acts for application of the international treaty) constitutional-legal conditions for application of international treaties of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Some Aspects of the Analysis of Circumstances Mitigating the Punishment in its Individualization

2019 ◽  
pp. 387-394
Author(s):  
Vladyslav BEREZHNIUK
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The article deals with the legal nature and significance of circumstances that mitigate the punishment as a criterion for the individualization of the punishment when it is imposed. It is stated that sentencing objectively acts as the final stage of justice. It is ascertained that the achievement of the goals of restoring social justice, correcting the convicted and preventing the commission of new crimes is possible only with the unconditional observance of the general principles of sentencing. Therefore, there is a system of rules regulating the process of individualization of the punishment and providing the uniformity of the application of the criteria established by law; these criteria are used by the court in determining the type and the measure of punishment for specific persons found guilty of an offense. The implementation of the tasks of criminal legislation (correcting the convicted person and preventing him from committing new crimes) to a great extent depends on the lawful, fair and justifiable punishment which is imposed on the perpetrator. As a consequence, the legal regulation of the general principles of sentencing is unconditional. In imposing a sentence, the court must apply an individual approach, taking into account the particularities of each crime and the person who committed it. Circumstances that mitigate the punishment also play an important role in this process. The analysis of the judicial practice shows the ambiguity of the approaches to take into account the circumstances that mitigate the punishment when it is imposed. Sentencing is often limited by courts only with statements that all the circumstances of the crime were taken into account without a detailed analysis of the facts. In order to avoid the aforementioned shortcoming, in the motivation part of the sentence, the court must not only list the circumstances that it found to be mitigating in the case, but also justify how they reduce the degree of the public danger of the crime and the perpetrator. In addition, the author investigates the issues of the criminal significance of circumstances that mitigate the punishment and gives reasons for inexhaustibility of the list of these circumstances.

scholarly journals The concept and content of the constitutional principle of justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Nataliya Shelever
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
Problematic Issue ◽  
The Law ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Principles Of Justice

The purpose of the article is to study the concept and content of the constitutional principle of justice, its impact on constitutional relations, identifying problems that arose during the implementation of this principle during quarantine restrictions due to the pandemic of COVID-19. This goal was achieved through the use of such methods as analysis of comparative law and formal law method. The study found that the principle of justice, although not enshrined in the Basic Law of Ukraine, but it goes through the Constitution of Ukraine and procedural codes. The problematic issue is that there is no legislative definition of «justice». The practice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the application of the principle of justice in its decisions is analyzed. It is substantiated that justice is a concept much broader than law and is a criterion for the legitimation of state power. The problems of realization of the constitutional principle of justice are investigated. It was found that the principles of law, which are enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine and current legislation of Ukraine, are not properly implemented in our country. The reason for this is the mentality of Ukrainians, which is characterized by low legal and political culture, violation of the law, distrust to the authorities, devaluation of moral and spiritual values. On the part of officials, it is a misuse of office positions. It is justified that justice requires equal application of the law for all. However, everyone has his/her own understanding and vision of justice. This led to problems during the coronavirus pandemic. Violations such as the violation of the constitutional right to education have been identified, namely distance learning leads to a violation of the principles of justice and equality. Restrictions on small and medium-sized businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic discriminated against entrepreneurs compared to large businesses.     As a result of the study, it was concluded that justice is a legal value and a fundamental principle of law, which permeates both the Constitution of Ukraine and current legislation. The realization of justice can be done only by observing the law. In Ukraine, it is quite difficult to implement this principle, because the laws are often unfair. During the quarantine restrictions, violations of constitutional human rights were revealed. Overcoming corruption and raising the legal culture and legal awareness of Ukrainians should be a necessary step for the effective implementation of the principle of justice.

scholarly journals BASICS OF THE JUDICIAL CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT IN RUSSIAN AND BRAZILIAN FEDERAL STRUCTURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Игорь Семеновский ◽  
Igor' Semenovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Review ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Federal Supreme ◽  
Federal Structure

This article is devoted to the comparative analysis of bases of legal regulation of the constitutional proceedings and enforcement in the Russian Federation and the Federative Republic of Brazil, whihc are the Member States of BRICS. The author provides a brief overview of the constitutional regulation of the judiciary and a comparative analysis of the models of judicial constitutional control in Brazil and Russia; examines in detail the legal regulation of judicial constitutional control of the two states, including a review of the constitutional regulation of judicial procedures used by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil. The article contains a few examples of the application by the highest bodies of judicial constitutional control of the constitutional principles of the federal structure and analyzes some decisions of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil and Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which have influenced the development of federalism in these states. On the basis of the study of the basic laws and other acts the author has made a conclusion about the similarities and differences in the legal regulation of judicial constitutional control in the sphere under consideration. So, he marked even more rigid interpretation of the Constitution by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, unlike the Russian practice, to the consideration of cases on conformity with Brasilian Constitution, state legislation and other normative-legal acts. For example, Brazilian and Russian federalism specifies and examines the constitutional principle of the Federal structure – the principle of symmetry. The conclusion is that the approach of the Russian legislator and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is more variable to regulate the issues and opportunities change the criteria of construction of models of organization of state power at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation with greater freedom in determining the internal structure then in Brazil.

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