The reform of the court system and judiciary of the carpathian ukraine dur-ing the period of the second regional government of augustin woloshyn (end of 1938 - early 1939)

Abstract

At the current stage of the development of legal science, the historical and legal research of the national system of judicial bodies and the problems of its reform is relevant. The transition of Ukraine from totalitarianism to a democratic, legal, social state contributed to the formation of a new system of judicial bodies, designed to meet the new historical conditions of social development and world standards.The problem of determining the role and place of the judiciary in the legal state, the necessary conditions for the construction of which are the affirmation of the autonomy and independence of this authority, the improvement of the existing system of relations between its bodies and other branches of government, and the optimal balancing of the mechanism of their interaction and mutual control, is gaining considerable relevance. Since the territories of modern Ukraine have been part of various state entities throughout history, the analysis of the reform of the judicial system and the judiciary in these territories is interesting and important in terms of the given problem.The article is devoted to the reform of the judicial system and judiciary of Carpathian Ukraine, which underwent a kind of evolution from autonomy to a federal system within Czechoslovakia and the declaration of independence (end of 1938 – beginning of 1939). It analyzes the process of evacuation and reformation of various judicial bodies caused by the decision of the first Vienna Arbitration (October 2, 1938) on the transfer of a large part of the territories of Czechoslovakia to Hungary, the Constitutional Law on the Autonomy of Subcarpathian Rus dated November 22, 1938 No 328 in terms of functioning, competence and principles of the formation of the judiciary, as well as the order of the second regional government of A. Voloshyn regarding the procedure and principles of the judiciary in the region.