FORMAL ASPECTS OF DEROGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DUE TO THE PANDEMIC OF COVID 19 IN COMPARATIVE PRACTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS Cover Image

ФОРМАЛНОПРАВНИ АСПЕКТИ ДЕРОГАЦИЈЕ ЉУДСКИХ ПРАВА ЗБОГ ПАНДЕМИЈЕ КОВИДА 19 У УПОРЕДНОЈ УСТАВНОСУДСКОЈ ПРАКСИ
FORMAL ASPECTS OF DEROGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DUE TO THE PANDEMIC OF COVID 19 IN COMPARATIVE PRACTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS

Author(s): Katinka Beretka
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: COVID-19; Constitutional court; Rule of law; Formal requirements

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the similarities and differences in the argumentation of the constitutional courts of the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Hungary when deciding on procedural/formal aspects of human rights derogation and other (restrictive) measures adopted due to COVID-19, such as the competence of bodies ordering restrictive measures, character/quality of their acts, control by the legislature and/or the executive. The commonality is that, despite the courts not neglecting the need for restrictive measures and the general interest in preserving public health, they treated the importance of formal requirements of the rule of law differently in pandemic conditions. The aim of this paper is to identify relevant common criteria and tests for assessing the constitutionality of these measures, in order to increase legal certainty in similar situations in the future, caused by new epidemics.

  • Issue Year: 71/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 119-154
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Serbian