Topical Issues of the Application of the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights in the Criminal Process of Ukraine

Viacheslav Viktorovich Shamrai; Yuliia Yuriivna Ivchuk; Vladislav Yegorovich Tarasenko; Hlib Omelianovych Fedorov

doi:10.34069/AI/2020.29.05.1

Viacheslav Viktorovich Shamrai Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8090-7523
Yuliia Yuriivna Ivchuk Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0399-9126
Vladislav Yegorovich Tarasenko Odessa State University of Internal Affairs. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-6330
Hlib Omelianovych Fedorov , Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2236-8290

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2020.29.05.1

Keywords: human rights and freedoms, case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, criminal procedure.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze topical issues of the application of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter - ECtHR) in the context of the implementation of the current criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine. To achieve this purpose, the authors have studied the scientific positions of the lawyers, the relevant provisions of the current legislation of Ukraine, the requirements of international legal acts and the case-law of the ECtHR. The general provisions of the criminal process science were methodological basis of the study. The authors of the article used the following methods of scientific knowledge: systematic, logical, semantic, comparative and documentary analysis. The place of the case-law of the ECtHR in the system of national legislation has been clarified, in particular the decisions of this Court are binding throughout Ukraine, and national courts have to apply the case-law of the ECtHR as a source of law. It is argued that the right of Ukrainian communities to seek the protection of their rights and freedoms under the 1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter - ECHR) is an additional guarantee against arbitrariness of the public authorities and officials who violated or restricted them. It was stated that even after implementation of the universally recognized norms and principles of international law in the sphere of protection of human rights and freedoms into current criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine, the facts of their violation occur. This, in turn, leads to the adoption of the ECtHR decisions against Ukraine, in which 90% of cases state violations of fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the ECHR.

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Author Biographies

Viacheslav Viktorovich Shamrai, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Yuliia Yuriivna Ivchuk, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of law science, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.

Vladislav Yegorovich Tarasenko, Odessa State University of Internal Affairs.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of Department of Criminal Procedure, Odessa State University of Internal Affairs.

Hlib Omelianovych Fedorov, , Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.

Candidate of Science in Public Administration, Assistant Rector of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Associate Professor of the Department of Legal Support of Economic Activities of the Faculty No. 6, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.

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