Semiotic perspective of evidence of court decisions: administrative and legal characteristics

Abstract

The article is devoted to the administrative-legal characteristics of the semiotic perspective of eviden- tiary judgments. This topic is relevant for domestic legal science, since legal reality, which is expressed, in particular, through the administration of justice, is a complex system united by numerous social ties, for the study of which it is necessary to use not only legal methods proper, but also interdisciplinary approaches. One of these approaches is semiotic. Thanks to its application, we will be able not only to deepen certain theoretical knowledge necessary for a better understanding of the phenomenon of justice as a way of exercising judicial power, but also to identify areas that need improvement. As a matter of fact, one of these areas is the evidentiary nature of court decisions. Today, we can observe trends towards the convergence of law, as a system that regulates relations in the “man-man” and “man-state” systems, and man. Law is becoming more people-oriented, humanistic. And the court, as an institution called to resolve disputes arising in these systems, must make exclusively legally based, evidence-based decisions. It is thanks to the understanding of the semiotic perspectives of the evidence of court decisions that it becomes possible to clarify the still unresolved philosophical and legal problems of the judiciary, in particular, symbolism as an opportunity to know the legal reality, and then to raise the level of legal awareness. The influence of semiotics on the evidence of court decisions is proposed to be considered in four aspects: 1) a court decision generally acts as a sign or a system of signs; 2) a sign or a system of signs clearly indicates a certain aspect of legal reality (proves or disproves the existence of an offense in the actions of one of the parties to the legal process); 3) influence on a person who makes a court decision as a sign or a system of signs (lawfulness of his behavior relative to the interpretation of signs in a specific legal system); 4) the content that each of the parties to the court process puts into the announced decision (the impact of the court decision on legal awareness).