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  5. Acts of judicial law as source of law: theoretical and applied aspect

“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 35 (2024), pages 224–232.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2024-35-224-232

Osiadla Mariia
Acts of judicial law as source of law: theoretical and applied aspect

Introduction. The article examines the essence and trends in the development of acts of judicial law as a source of law. The value approach to acts of judicial law as a source of law is determined by the peculiarities of the historical development of the state, schools of legal understanding, and the state's affi liation to the legal system. The application of judicial practice (citation practice) in the countries of Anglo-Saxon law, countries of Muslim law and countries of the Romano-Germanic legal family is analyzed. Thus, the content of judicial law-making consists in fi lling gaps in the legislation, when a certain rule of law was stated vaguely and incomprehensible to the subjects of legal relations, which required additional interpretation when deciding the case; in the absence of a corresponding rule in the resolution of disputes; as well as when resolving legal confl icts of legal norms among themselves, when courts formulate the principle of priority of these norms, which later became mandatory in judicial practice. The classifi cation of acts of judicial law is determined both in a broad (all activities of judicial authorities) and in a narrow dimension (as the creation of certain legal provisions of a "precedent" nature). The characterization of acts of judicial law according to the form of their expression, in particular - decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, Decisions and Conclusions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, and decisions of the Supreme Court. The legal analysis carried out provided grounds to conclude about the high place of the justice bodies in Ukraine (Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Supreme Court) and their infl uence on legislation and legal policy, since individual acts issued by them - court decisions - are more than law-enforcement, but have a general and legal signifi cance. Results. Thus, there is no doubt that the meaning of judicial practice is determined by the fact that it acquires a law-making character for the regulation of social legal relations, acting as a "guideline for solving specifi c cases similar in content." In this case, acts of judicial law aff ect the development of not only judicial policy, but also principles of law, improvement of legislation.

Key words: acts of judicial law; sources of law; schools of legal understanding; legal positions of the court.

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