The Principle of Accessibility of Constitutional Justice: its content and guarantees

Abstract

The article focuses on the specifics of the content and guarantees of the principle of accessibility of constitutional justice, which is one of the main principles of the activities of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and constitutional (statutory) courts of constituent entities of the Federation. In general terms, this principle presupposes the creation of organizational, institutional and regulatory legal conditions that provide a real opportunity not only to refer authorized entities to the body of constitutional justice, but also to consider and resolve the case in order to effectively restore violated rights. The following main guarantees of the principle of accessibility of constitutional justice are analyzed: establishment of clear and transparent rules for the jurisdiction of relevant cases; absence of unnecessary organizational and fiscal encumbrances related to appealing to the bodies of constitutional justice; ensuring the possibility to use such a method of considering the case that is convenient for the applicant, including those that are based of modern information technologies; free access to information concerning the activities of the bodies of constitutional justice, etc. The main problems concerning a legislative framework of these guarantees are shown.