Issue: № 5, 2024
Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2024.5.15
The paper is devoted to issues related to bringing prosecutors to disciplinary responsibility in Ukraine. Disciplinary responsibility is a type of legal responsibility that, compared to others, is the most common and often applied to prosecutors. It is worth noting that the existence and consolidation of the disciplinary responsibility of prosecutors at the legislative level does not contradict European standards and is justified, since this type of responsibility acts not only as a guarantor of the prosecutors' performance of their duties, ensuring the rights of citizens, society and the state, but also contributes to the prevention of offenses with by the prosecutors themselves. From a doctrinal point of view, the disciplinary responsibility of prosecutors is considered as a special, independent type of legal responsibility, which is applied in a specific sphere of human life and is related to the professional activity of special subjects - prosecutors. Disciplinary responsibility of prosecutors as a type of legal responsibility consists in the infliction by the violator of prosecutorial discipline of adverse moral, material and organizational deprivations for him and is one of the means of ensuring compliance of the activity and behavior of prosecutors with professional standards. It cannot be claimed that today the practice of bringing prosecutors to disciplinary responsibility is clearly developed and unambiguous. Both the theory and the practice of holding prosecutors to account require serious consideration and the introduction of new approaches in order to increase their effectiveness. In general, the disciplinary responsibility of prosecutors is aimed at forming a responsible professional approach and stopping offenses in the legal sphere, in particular the corruption component.
Keywords : prosecutor, disciplinary responsibility, disciplinary penalty, disciplinary proceedings
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