Digitalization of the ECtHR activities in inheritance cases and in compulsory enforcement of jurisdictional decisions: International-legal aspect

Olha Tsybulska; Valerii Prytuliak; Svitlana Shcherbak; Olha Verba; Alisa Kozhevnikova

doi:10.34069/AI/2022.58.10.18

Olha Tsybulska National University «Odesa Law Academy», Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5534-4917
Valerii Prytuliak National University «Odesa Law Academy», Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2490-0225
Svitlana Shcherbak Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9969-3817
Olha Verba Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9254-9575
Alisa Kozhevnikova Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5808-2411

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.58.10.18

Keywords: digitalization, European Court of Human Rights, enforcement of court decisions, jurisdictional bodies, judicial proceedings.

Abstract

Global challenges and the change in people's usual way of life during the pandemic have shown that it is digital technologies that can expand the possibilities of humanity. Their improvement and expansion of their scope is a priority for many states of the world. Therefore, global digitalization has covered all spheres of social life, including justice and the activities of decision-enforcement bodies. In particular, at the 37th plenary meeting of the European Commission on the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe (CEPEJ), unity was demonstrated on the need for further development of tools concerning the digitalization of justice. Due to this, it is important to analyze the features of the digitalization of justice on the example of the activities of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as the ECtHR) regarding inheritance cases and pay attention to the international legal aspect of this issue. The purpose of the work is to study the international legal aspect of digitalization of the activity of the ECtHR in inheritance cases and in the course of enforcement of decisions of jurisdictional bodies. The research methodology includes the dialectical method, historical-logical, comparative-legal, formal-legal, statistical, systemic-structural, modeling, and sociological methods. The authors summarized that the digitalization of justice is reflected in the activities of the ECtHR, including inheritance cases. The authors also highlighted the problematic issues of regulation of the implementation of digitalization tools for the administration of justice in some countries and problematic issues of digitalization of enforcement of court decisions.

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Author Biographies

Olha Tsybulska, National University «Odesa Law Academy», Ukraine.

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Department of International and European Law of National University «Odesa Law Academy», Ukraine.

Valerii Prytuliak, National University «Odesa Law Academy», Ukraine.

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure of National University «Odesa Law Academy», Ukraine.

Svitlana Shcherbak, Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine.

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Department of Administrative and Information Law of Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine.

Olha Verba, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law Disciplines, Institute of Law, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Alisa Kozhevnikova, Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine.

Graduate student of the Department of Administrative and Information Law of the Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine.

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