Criminal offences that infringe on the procedure for the execution of court decisions under the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine: issues of legislative regulation

Abstract

The relevance of this study is justified by the need to carry out a comparative legal study of the norms that ensure the protection of the interests of justice in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine in the field of implementation of judicial prescriptions as an important stage of the justice process as a whole. The purpose of this study was to implement a general description of criminal offences that encroach on the procedure for the execution of court decisions, according to the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine, as well as characteristics of those features that allow distinguishing the corresponding encroachments from other offences against justice and combining them into one category. This study employed a set of scientific methods: terminological, system-structural, formal logical, comparative legal. Based on the results of this study, it was established that the formalization of criminal offences, which encroach on the implementation of the principle of inevitability of legal responsibility, and the criminal law enforcement of court decisions in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine is an ongoing process. The conclusion was substantiated that the criminalization of a fairly wide scope of socially dangerous acts of this category implemented in the current criminal legislation of each of the States is conditioned upon the social need to ensure human rights and public interests in the field of implementing the tasks of justice. The provisions formulated in this paper will contribute to the search for more effective means of criminal law in the law-making and law enforcement of both the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine.