The Role of European Court on Human Rights in Mechanism of Protection from Inaction of Public Power Institutions in Russia
Abstract
The paper analyzes the ECHR case practice on the efficiency of the body to implement the right of RF citizens to enforce the enacted court decisions as a constitutional guarantee of judicial protection. The author shows the current degree of legal nihilism expressed by public authorities as to the obligatory judicial acts. The objective of the paper is analyzing the possibilities to overcome the non-feasance of Russian authorities on solving this system problem serving a basis to address the ECHR on similar cases. The author researches the mechanism of identifying structural issues and analyzes the implementation of the methods of pilot judgements which obliged states to take measures to solve the problems. The research concerns the ECHR tasks to use the procedure of pilot judgements and legal framework determining the mechanism and consequences of taking pilot judgements. The analysis also concerns the causes determining the application of such judgements by the ECHR with the majour one being limited resources and possibilities of the ECHR in the condition of the growing number of individual complaints. On the basis of the analysis, the author concludes that the key cause of system issues in Russia is non-feasance of Russian Public authorities. The paper presents the results of the scientific experiment arranged by the author, who addressed the ECHR with complaints including those on the non-compliance with court decisions by Russian courts. As a result, some of the complaints filed by the author were considered by the ECHR on the basis of pilot judgements related to Russia.
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