Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Specialised Courts within the Methodological Framework and International Discussion. – 3. Specialised Courts as an Urgent Need for the State Development of Ukraine. – 4. The Experience of European Countries in the Context of Judicial Specialisation. – 5. Conclusions.
Background: The issue of judicial specialisation is one of the main concerns in the development of a judicial system. This study aims to analyse the function and legal basis ofspecialised courts among the member states of the European Union (EU) and in Ukraine.
Methods: In the article, the authors used the following special legal methods: conceptual- legal, comparative-legal, formal-legal, and others. For example, the comparative-legal method helped the authors compare the features of specialised court practice in other countries and allowed them to identify how different countries regulate this issue at the legislative level.
Results and Conclusions: This article argues that specialisation is driven by the need to improve the efficiency of justice and the need to apply in-depth specialist knowledge in a specific area of justice. Information and knowledge gained from the experience of different countries can be used as a basis for the implementation, adaptation, and development of relevant new provisions in Ukraine.
Mykola Lohvinenko
Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative, Economical Law and Financial Economic Security, Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
m.logvinenko@yur.sumdu.edu.ua
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0288-8560
Corresponding author, responsible for submission, text writing and study preparing, responsible for ensuring that the descriptions and the manuscript are accurate and agreed by all authors.
Lyudmila Rudenko
Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative, Economical Law and Financial Economic Security, Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
l.rudenko@uabs.sumdu.edu.ua
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6276-395X Co-author, responsible for data collection and writing.
Mykola Shunko
Postgraduate student at the Department of Administrative, Economical Law and Financial Economic Security, Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
shunko8104@yur.sumdu.edu.ua
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9033-0801 Co-author, responsible for data collection and writing.
Olena Pylypenko
Postgraduate student at the Department of Administrative, Economical Law and Financial Economic Security, Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-2362 Co-author, responsible for data collection.
Anton Vysotskyi
Student at the Department of Administrative, Economical Law and Financial Economic Security, Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
vysotskyi@yur.sumdu.edu.ua
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2431-0786 Co-author, responsible for data collection and writing.
Competing interests: The co-authors declare that there is no potential conflict of interest related to this article.
Disclaimer: The co-authors declare that their opinions and views expressed in this article are free of any impact of any organizations.
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Copyright: © 2022 Lohvinenko M, Rudenko L, Shunko M, Pylypenko O, Vysotskyi A. This is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lohvinenko M, Rudenko L, Shunko M, Pylypenko O, Vysotskyi A ‘Specialised Courts of Ukraine and European Countries: A Comparative Legal Analysis’ 2022 No 2 (No14) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 122-133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33327/AJEE-18-5.2-n000203