CURRENT TRENDS IN THE SPHERE OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS, SERVICE LAW OF UKRAINE AND THEIR CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article provides a critical analysis of current trends in the sphere of legal liability of civil servants and the sphere of employment law of Ukraine. It is established that the inconsistency and incompleteness of the national legislation on public service has a negative impact on the effectiveness of legal liability of public servants. A small number of works in administrative law which, firstly, solve the conceptual problems of administrative law, and secondly, combine knowledge of the theory of law, the science of administrative law and the work of other branches of science. It is concluded that official law should be considered as an institution of administrative law, which has a cross-sectoral nature. The legal responsibility of public servants is a sub-institute of service law of Ukraine. The cross-sectoral nature of service law is due to the fact that today it combines the rules of administrative, constitutional, labor, civil and criminal law. It was found that the content of national legislation allows to distinguish the following types of legal liability of public servants: 1) disciplinary liability, which is regulated mainly by the rules of administrative law; 2) disciplinary liability, which is regulated by labor law; 3) administrative liability, which is regulated by the rules of administrative tort law; 4) material liability, which today is partially regulated by the rules of administrative law (we are talking about the procedure for voluntary compensation for material damage) and mainly by the rules of civil law (we are talking about the procedure for forced compensation for material damage); 5) criminal liability, which is provided by the norms of criminal and criminal procedural legislation. It is established that the legal liability of public servants can only be retrospective, that is, used only for the commission of illegal acts by these employees. Arguments are given regarding the lack of positive responsibility of public servants. The use of this concept in the scientific literature is due only to the reluctance of scientists to break away from the archaic ideas about the structure of the rule of law, legal sanctions and incentives.