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SOME FEATURES TO ENSURE HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND: FORENSIC, ORGANIZATIONAL, CRIMINAL AND ARBITRAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify and organize the features of human rights in the legal system of England by analyzing characteristics of organization the judiciary, the rights of the source system and the historical process of the case law formation and statutory its subsystems. The author also analyses the judge status and his role in the jurisdictional system of England in general and in the criminal proceedings in particular. The author analyzes the key historical and ethnic characteristics of the English law origin, the conditions of precedents formation in the legal system of England, the role of legal doctrine as a source of law, the historical reasons for the emergence and development of the "right justice". The author also analyses the statutory law-making in modern England, especially in the sphere of criminal justice. The author pays special attention to psychological characteristics and qualities of the English judge. The paper explains a concept of reasonableness and fairness as the basis for the court decisions. The author discusses a role of the court in the hearing of criminal cases, and a role of the prosecutorial bodies in the system of law enforcement authorities. At the same time, the author makes a comparative legal analysis of the Russian legal reality and the English one. Some conclusions are made concerning advantages and disadvantages of individual rights in the legal system of England. Basic results of the research are conclusions on benefits of the English legal system in comparison with the Roman-Germanic and Russian systems. These benefits include flexibility of sources of law, independence of the judiciary, a reasonable combination of case and statutory law, the rules and the foundation of formation and application in practice of judicial discretion. The author sees controversial aspects of the legal system of England in the uncertainties that arise while implementing the evidentiary powers by a court in criminal proceedings, which are analyzed from the perspective of the court activity and passivity in a judicial proof. In many advanced countries and their procedural systems this problem is diverted in the moral aspect, and is solved by formulating a moral and ethical recommendations addressed to the judges.

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A. A. Kozyavin
Southwest State University
Russian Federation


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Kozyavin A.A. SOME FEATURES TO ENSURE HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND: FORENSIC, ORGANIZATIONAL, CRIMINAL AND ARBITRAL ASPECTS. Proceedings of the Southwest State University. 2016;(4):189-198. (In Russ.)

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