Juvenile Justitia and the protection of children’s rights in Europe: the practice of the European Court of Human Rights

  • Mykola Bondaruk Department of Private Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
  • Serhiy H. Melenko Department of European Law and Comparative Law Studies, Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi
  • Liubov Omelchuk Department of Criminalistics and Criminal Process, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine
  • Liliya Radchenko Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Anzhela Levenets Department of Constitutional Law and Justice, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University
Keywords: youth policy, European Court of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, legal reality of Ukraine

Abstract

The objective of the research is to analyze the main violations of children's rights within the European Convention on Human Rights to highlight the basic positions of the European Court of Human Rights ECHR on their protection, as well as to determine the advisability of applying the practice of this court by the European states. The methodological basis of the work consists of different methods, such as analysis and synthesis, dialectical, logical-legal and formal-legal. The result of this work allowed identifying the role of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights as a source of European law and its importance for the protection of the rights of the child, interpreting the legal positions established in the pertinent decisions of the said court and comparing them, to justify the need for your careful observation of the practice of the ECHR in the application of the law. It is concluded that the practice of the ECHR is recognized as a source of law in most states. And although the Ukrainian legal tradition does not recognize the status of judicial precedent as a source of law, such precedents are actively used in everyday legal activity.

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Author Biographies

Mykola Bondaruk, Department of Private Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Private Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Serhiy H. Melenko, Department of European Law and Comparative Law Studies, Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi

Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Full Professor, Department of European Law and Comparative Law Studies, Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi.

Liubov Omelchuk, Department of Criminalistics and Criminal Process, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Criminalistics and Criminal Process, University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.

Liliya Radchenko, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Ph. D. in Law, Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Civil Law, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Anzhela Levenets, Department of Constitutional Law and Justice, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University

Ph. D. in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law and Justice, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University.

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Published
2021-03-06
How to Cite
Bondaruk, M., Melenko, S. H., Omelchuk, L., Radchenko, L., & Levenets, A. (2021). Juvenile Justitia and the protection of children’s rights in Europe: the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. Political Questions, 39(68), 167-185. Retrieved from https://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/cuestiones/article/view/35405
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Derechos Humanos