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Author: Elena Gritsenko
DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2017-6-65-77
Keywords: Constitutional Court of Russia; European Convention on Human Rights; judicial protection; Russian Constitution; The European Court of Human Rights; субъективные права; субъективные публичные права; универсальные стандарты доступа к правосудию
Access to justice as a right, principle, and guarantee is the element of everyone’s right to judicial protection and the condition for its implementation is constitutional in nature and is recognized under international law as a fundamental human right. It is supported by international standards of access to the court as embodied in the European Convention on Human Rights, and is extensively developed in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. This article examines the perceptions of these international standards in the Russian legal system, taking into account the provisions of the Russian Constitution and the interpretations of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The author’s view on universal standards of access to justice is proposed as a set of principles, guarantees, and criteria for access to judicial protection that is recognized at the international, supranational, and national levels of legal regulation. A classification of these standards is also given. Depending on the legal content and focus, the following types of standards are distinguished: material, procedural, and institutional standards of access to justice. Material standards relate to the characteristics of the object of judicial protection and the conditions for access to it, while procedural and institutional standards relate to various aspects of the organization of judicial protection, such as institutional judicial organization (institutional standards) and judicial proceedings (procedural standards). The peculiarities of the perception of universal standards of access to judicial protection in the Russian legislation are largely due to the allocation of subjective public rights as an independent object of protection. In this regard, it seems necessary to differentiate the forms of judicial protection and to distinguish the administrative judicial proceedings as a guarantee of access to justice and an important way to ensure the effectiveness of judicial protection of subjective public rights.
About the author: Elena Gritsenko – Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor, Department of State and Administrative Law, State University of Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Citation: Gritsenko E. (2017) Zashchita sub’ektivnykh publichnykh prav v Rossii: universal’nye standarty dostupa k pravosudiyu [The protection of subjective public rights in Russia: universal standards of access to justice]. Sravnitel’noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, no. 6, pp. 65–77. (In Russian).
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