Європейські стандарти людських прав у практиці Конституційного Суду України

Abstract

Здійснено ретроспективний аналіз деяких аспектів застосування та впровадження європейських стандартів людських прав у конституційному судочинстві України. Обґрунтовано, що вітчизняний орган конституційної юрисдикції, усвідомлюючи свою роль інструмента впровадження означених стандартів у національну юридичну практику, активно використовує в своїй діяльності Конвенцію про захист прав людини і основоположних свобод та практику Страсбурзького суду як аргументи для мотивування власних рішень. The article is devoted to the retrospective analysis of some aspects of the application and implementation of European human rights standards in the constitutional proceedings of Ukraine. It is substantiated that the domestic body of constitutional jurisdiction, realizing its role as an instrument for implementing European human rights standards in national legal practice, actively uses the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the practice of the Strasbourg Court as arguments to motivate its decisions. In the future, not only the formal but also the substantive aspect of the use of the Convention and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in the acts of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine certainly needs special attention. The following analysis will allow to reveal the "quality" of the reference to these international sources and the relevance of references to them. In the motivating part of its decisions, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine also uses as an additional argumentation a wide range of other international legal acts and decisions of other international and foreign judicial institutions. This aspect of the practice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine obviously deserves to be the subject of our further research. Based on the validity of our conclusion in previous publications that the main philosophical basis of modern decisions of the Strasbourg Court are the postulates of liberal communitarianism as a result of a kind of convergence of liberal and communitarian ideologues, we believe that, in turn, these postulates can’t be found in the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (when it uses the provisions of the Convention and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights for additional argumentation of its own legal positions). At the same time, this hypothesis still needs to be thoroughly proved in the following special research.