Administrative and legal forms of court evaluation in the conditions of reforming the judicial system of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition of administrative-legal forms of court evaluation in the conditions of reforming the judicial system of Ukraine. The content of the "form" category is revealed, as well as the doctrinal understanding of the concepts of "forms of management activity", "forms of state administration", "administrative-legal form", "administrative-legal form of evaluation". It has been found that scientists, revealing the content of the given definitions, pay attention to various subjects, including public administration agencies. It has been established that public administration borders on the functioning of the judicial branch, accordingly, subjects of judicial public administration are included in the recommended organizational structure for systematic court evaluation. The content and forms of exercising the powers of subjects of judicial public administration have been clarified. It is noted that the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine is authorized by law to analyze the activities of the courts on a quarterly basis in order the improvement the state of court cases consideration and the rational use of budget funds. It is emphasized that an important subject of the organizational structure for court evaluation is the working group, the minimum composition of which includes one judge and one employee of the court apparatus. It was concluded that the given organizational structure unreasonably bypasses the head of the court, who takes part in the organization of complex court evaluation and is interested in its effective functioning. It is emphasized that the head of the court organizes the maintenance of court statistics in the court, which indicates the existence of such an administrative-legal form of court evaluation as the collection and study of statistical information. The peculiarities of the survey of citizens, judges and employees of the court apparatus as an administrative and legal form of court evaluation are considered. It was noted that, taking into account the importance of the integrity of judges and court staff for the effective operation of the court, it is appropriate to single out the evaluation of corruption risks among the administrative-legal forms of court evaluation.