THE IMMUNITY OF A STATE IN INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW: THE LATEST TENDENCY OF LEGISLATION AND JUDICIAL PRACTICE
This article is devoted to the research of such well-known nowadays phenomenon as the immunity of a state and other different aspects, related to it. Also there was explored different approaches to the basis for granting states rights to the immunity and its application. According to explored sources there are two main approaches to this problem – the immunity of a state depends on its recognition as a sovereign state by other states (their governments), and another one – the immunity of a state depends mostly on the possibility of the government to control the territory of the state and its authority among citizens, but the most right and relevant approach, to our mind, is the combination of both of these approaches. In this article there was analyzed different approaches to the immunity of a state such as the absolute immunity of a state and the functional (limited) immunity of a state. We explored our national legislation to reveal, which approach is more relevant for Ukraine. Thus, as we decided, nowadays prevailing in Ukraine is the approach of the absolute immunity of a state, at least in the main legislative act – the Law of Ukraine «On International Private Law», related to relations within the international private law. At the same time, as we analyzed, in different Ukrainian legislative acts there are not absolutely the same provisions on the immunity of a state. Also explored national judicial practice of the Supreme Court, related to the well-known case, nevertheless, proves, that Ukraine made and still makes some real attempts to change its current approach to the immunity of a state from the absolute immunity of a state to more liberal approach of the functional (limited) immunity of a state, moreover, it is really important within the European integration of Ukraine and the participation of the state of Ukraine in the foreign economic activity as a private entity. Considering all mentioned above, there was made appropriate, relevant conclusion on the latest tendency of the national legislation and the judicial practice on this issue.