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The Implementation of E-justice within the Framework of the Right to a Fair Trial in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. Components of the Right to a Fair Trial and Their Relationship with the Implementation of E-justice. – 3. Current Situation of E-justice Implementation in Ukraine through the Prism of Recent Legislative Changes and Wartime. – 4. Problems and Prospects of the Actual Implementation of E-justice in Ukraine. – 5. Proposals for Solving the Problems of E-justice Implementation in Ukraine. – 6. Concluding Remarks.

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 Problems and prospects for the implementation of the concept of e-justice within the framework of the right to a fair trial in Ukraine are especially relevant today due to the digitalisation of state and legal relations. The components of the right to a fair trial and their relationship to the implementation of e-justice; a system of legal regulation, recent legislative changes, current conditions, and prospects for the development of e-justice in Ukraine require further research.

The author used the following methods to solve the relevant tasks: dialectical – problems in the functioning of e-justice in Ukraine; historical analysis –the evolution of the legal regulation and the scientific, legal doctrine of e-justice; analysis and synthesis – analysis of legal regulation, recent legislative changes, the current state of and prospects for the development of e-justice in Ukraine; deduction – allowed the author to move from the general provisions of legal theory to the application of these postulates in the study of e-justice; system analysis – suggesting ways to overcome the problems in the functioning of e-justice in Ukraine; formal and dogmatic – providing an analysis of the norms of current legislation; theoretical modelling – formulating the draft of legislative changes; comparative – a study of foreign experience in the legal regulation of e-governance, taking into account the practice of justice in Ukraine.

The author has identified problems in the functioning of e-justice in Ukraine and normative, legal, material, technical, and organisational problems in realising the principles of the right to a fair trial for citizens of Ukraine, taking into account the concept of e-justice as a component of e-governance. To solve these problems, the following are proposed: normative regulation of the procedure for submission and examination of e-evidence; certification and standardisation of computer equipment and software in the field of e-justice; legal education activities of the state in terms of promoting e-governance; improving the computer literacy of citizens and civil servants.

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Maksym Maika

Cand. of Science of Law (Equiv. Ph.D.) Lawyer, Assoc. Prof. at the Department of law, Halytskyi College named after Viacheslav Chornovil, Ternopil Ukraine 

maykam@gi.edu.ua 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9666


Corresponding author, contributed solely to the intellectual discussion underlying this paper, case-law exploration, writing and editing, and accept responsibility for the content and interpretation. (Credit taxonomy). 
Competing interests: the author has declared that no conflicts of interest or competing interests exist. 
Disclaimer: The author should declare that his or her opinion and views expressed in this manuscript are free of any impact of any organizations.
Acknowledgments: The author would like to express his gratitude to the reviewers and editors of the journal as well as to the translator Galyna Kondyra.


Managing editor – Dr. Olena Terekh. English Editor – Dr. Sarah White.


Copyright: © 2022 Maksym Maika. This is an open access article 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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Keywords

  • e-justice, the right to a fair trial, e-court, digitalisation of justice, e-evidence, e-technology in court, justice amid Covid-19

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  •  Maika M ‘The Implementation of E-justice within the Framework of the Right to a Fair Trial in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects’ 2022 3(15) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 249-262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33327/AJEE-18-5.2-n000320