The rule of law principle in the practice of the ECtHR and national courts

Abstract

The study aims to reveal the constituent elements of the rule of law (RL), highlighted by the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and individual national courts. It also analyses the feasibility of implementing and consolidating such isolation as a way to overcome the declarative nature of the RL. The versatility of the meanings and content of this principle, its declarative nature of existence and consolidation gives rise to a number of issues, the absence of a solution to which is primarily manifested by the presence of negative consequences in practice, in particular, according to the generally recognized selection of the components of the principle of the RL (PRL), it is advisable and relevant to study official interpretations of the RL. The aim of the work is to identify some fundamental interpretations of the PRL to overcome its declarativeness. The methodological basis of the work consists of the following methods: dialectical, epistemological, functional, axiological, comparative legal method, method of system-structural analysis, method of generalization. The main conclusions are that the interpretation of the RL by the relevant judicial bodies reveals and consolidates the multifaceted content of this principle, but the lack of systematization of such interpretation’s risks creating complications in its practical application.