Analysis of the effectiveness of the mechanisms for the execution of court decisions in the civil justice system of Ukraine
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Law Enforcement, Judicial Practice, Executive Proceedings, Legal Effectiveness, Civil JusticeAbstract
The purpose of this study was to describe the effectiveness of the existing mechanisms for the execution of court decisions in civil cases in Ukraine. The research methodology was formed based on the indices of the development of the judicial system: the index of measuring the effectiveness of justice, formed by the World Bank, and the quality of regulation and the rule of law were used. The quality of regulation is assessed using a widely used international indicator, where higher scores correspond to higher regulatory effectiveness. Using World Bank datasets together with administrative statistics from the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, a correlation-regression analysis was conducted. The results of the study indicated that improving the rule of law and quality of regulation indicators had a statistically significant positive impact on the enforcement of court decisions. This explained about 79% of the explained variation. It was found that there are difficulties with the functioning mechanism in the civil justice system of Ukraine, due to the low percentage of their actual execution. The conclusions indicate that to solve the proposed problems, it is proposed to optimize legislative regulation, establish budgetary discipline, introduce an automated database for the execution.
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