Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 585–588.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-585-588

Lysiuk Y. Yu.
Constitutional parameters of civil proceedings

The article examines the impact of the constitution on civil proceedings. It is substantiated that human and civil rights and freedoms play a fundamental role in the establishment of constitutional norms and formation of constitutional principles that are manifested in sectoral legislation. The author analyses the stages of human rights development in the historical context. The principle of access to justice is studied in the light of generations of human rights. The author focuses on the basic principles of judicial proceedings enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine and identifies the elements of the constitutional model of justice. These include: the possibility of protecting human rights and freedoms with due regard for the direct effect of the Constitution; the exercise of judicial power stipulates that justice is administered exclusively by a court; the scope of judicial power is established in accordance with the rule that judicial jurisdiction extends to all legal disputes, and others.

Human and civil rights and freedoms determine the main directions of development of national legislation, in particular, the essence of constitutional provisions that not only proclaim the value of the judicial form of protection of rights, but also define the basic principles of organisation of the judiciary and administration of justice. This led researchers to define the essence of a new phenomenon - the fundamentalisation of human rights and freedoms.

The «global access to justice movement» has had a significant impact on the transformation of civil justice. This is evidenced by M. Cappelletti’s theory of three waves. We believe that in modern conditions, along with the fundamentalisation of human and civil rights and freedoms, it is legitimate to raise the issue of unification and harmonisation of domestic legislation with the law of the European Union.

The analysis of constitutional provisions makes it possible to distinguish the following elements of the constitutional model of justice: the possibility of protecting human rights and freedoms due to the direct effect of the Constitution; the exercise of judicial power is conditioned by the administration of justice exclusively by the court; the scope of judicial power is established given that judicial jurisdiction extends to all legal disputes; the organisation of the judicial system should be based on the requirements of territoriality and specialisation.

Key words: fundamentalisation, civil proceedings, constitutional parameters, human rights, principles of judicial proceedings.

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Yaroslav Yuriyovych Lysyuk,
Postgraduate Student at the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law
of the NAS of Ukraine
ORCID: 0009-0008-3490-1655