Review

The issue of enforcement of the right for fair trial in Ukraine is becoming increasingly urgent, as the current judicial system does not have confidence in society and acts without taking into account the legally established fundamental principles of the judiciary.

The purpose of this article is to analyse the problematic issues of enforcement of the right for fair trial in Ukraine and to suggest possible ways of their solution, taking into account the experience of France.

To resolve the stated goal, the author proposes the following algorithm for observation the question of the right to a fair trial: 1) analysis of certain aspects of the enforcement of the right for fair trial in France; 2) a comparative analysis of the provision of the right for a fair trial in France and Ukraine; 3) Extrapolation of the experience of France in ensuring the right to a fair trial in the system of judicial proceedings of Ukraine.

It is noted that according to Art. 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as well as the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, the right to a fair trial - the establishment of certain qualifications for the organization of a court: its creation by law; independence, impartiality; accessibility; observance of the procedure of consideration of the case; publicity; ensuring of the enforcement of the rights of participants in court proceedings provided by the procedural law; competition; a reasonable period of consideration of the case; execution of the final court decision, etc.

The author concludes that the positive and useful in the legislation of France for the borrowing of Ukrainian legislators is a detailed normative definition of the principles of the activity of judges, the conditions for recognizing their bias, the rules for determining the composition of the court, withdrawal and isolation, such features were based on the analysis of procedural law, the specific cases examined by the European Court of Human Rights. For instance, the author states that in the legislation of Ukraine, it would be advisable to propose as a basis for the removal (recusal) of a judge, any pleading (enemy) relationship between a judge and any party in a case that would provide additional guarantees to ensure impartiality of the trial (on the example of France).

Key words: judicial authority, right for fair trial, proceedings of France, European Court of Human Rights.