Judicial doctrine in the legal system of the world

Abstract

Special characteristics of the perception of judicial doctrine in the countries of common and continental law, in the European community in terms of the harmonisation and strengthening the influence of the European Court of Human Rights on the juridical regulation, are defined. Special attention is paid to the identification of the essence and content oh judicial doctrine of the ECHR and its importance in the regulation of social relations. Generally accepted approach in the countries of continental law is the one under which the judicial practice and doctrine, as a result of compilation of jurisprudence, is not the source of law in formal-legal perception, but it is an important factor of the law-making. In the countries of common law, the legal doctrine has been developing by scaling up the experience of court’s decisions and the perception of the decisions of the judicial authorities as a source of law. The case law of the European Court of Human Rights as a part of European legal system plays the harmonisation role. The judicial doctrine of European Court of Human Rights is one of the sources of law for the counties of the European Area and countries, that adhered to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, strengthened its grip since the end of the twentieth century and in the twenty-first century, especially, it increased the influence on the regulation of the international relations and the domestic relations as well. Such doctrine became a part of their national legislature. The above mentioned is confirmed by legal force and by place in national legal systems of judicial doctrine of European Court of Human Rights, containing general principles or framework for the protection of human rights and freedoms. That’s why its perception is performed as a general rule , source of law, but not the judgment in a particular case, which is not relevant to the hearing of other cases. For this, important is constitutional endorsement of ECHR’s decisions in the hierarchy of legal acts, or sources of law in formal-legal perception. For this moment, there had been a convergence of conceptual approaches to understanding the legal doctrine in general and judicial doctrine in particular. There is a fundamental importance of the judicial doctrine, which is a precondition and a source for the law-making, law enforcement, and also it could act as a direct source of law in formal-legal perception.