Peculiarities of ensuring the constitutional right to a fair trial: international and national aspects
Estándares internacionales para procesos penales en regímenes legales de emergencia
Abstract
Using a documentary methodology combining different research techniques such as dialectics, the article conducts a scientific analysis of the implementation of the constitutional right to a fair trial in Ukraine and defines its essence and content; it also investigates the peculiarities of normative consolidation of the right in international legal acts and studies the positive experience of applying the precedent practice of the European Court of Human Rights, to solve the main problems of the implementation of this right in the national judiciary in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine. Among other things, the essence of the term “right to a fair trial” was clarified and a study of the peculiarities of the implementation of the right to a fair trial in conditions of war from the perspective of the European Court of Human Rights was conducted. It is concluded that, both in theory and in concrete reality, the right to a fair trial is complex in nature and includes the fairness and publicity of the proceedings, the reasonableness of the terms, the presumption of innocence, the independence and impartiality of the court, the existence of a dispute over rights and obligations, among other aspects.
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