Law of Ukraine
[citation needed] The new civil law books (enacted in 2004) were heavily influenced by the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch.
The power to make laws can be delegated to lower governments or specific organs of the State, but only for a prescribed purpose.
In recent years, it has become common for the legislature to create "framework laws" and delegate the creation of detailed rules to ministers or lower governments (e.g. a province or municipality).
[citation needed] After laws are published in Holos Ukrayiny they come into force officially the next day.
Civil law regulates the everyday life of citizens and other legal entities, such as corporations.
It comprises provisions governing ownership, intellectual property rights, contracts, torts, obligations, inheritance law, and the definition of legal entities.
The Constitution of Ukraine allows the direct application of most international laws in Ukrainian courts.
Because Ukrainian legal system is code-based, there are a number of codified laws in the main spheres of national legislation.
These include: Only the Parliament of Ukraine is entitled to issue normative acts in the form of laws.
[citation needed] A judge shall not refer to political parties and trade unions, as well as participate in any political activity, have representative mandate, occupy any other paid posts, or do any other paid work except that which is scientific in nature, teaching or creative value.
They are also obliged to take measures concerning prevention of unauthorized dissemination of the information the state and/or commercial entity considers secret or is confidential and became known to him/her in the process of doing official duties.
The Law sets the system of guarantees of judge's professional activity which are necessary to approve unprejudiced and objective decisions.
The Law guarantees to judges their personal immunity, secrecy of court decisions, legal protection, as well as material and social provision.
The Diploma is awarded after the successful defense of dissertation (thesis) by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK).
Scientific degrees awarded by VAK are classified into an established list of specialties, grouped into the following major sections.
The qualifications include one dissertation (CSJ) and demonstrating the competence of conducting scientific research independently.
The qualifications include one dissertation (doctoral degree (DSJ)) and demonstrating the competence of conducting scientific research independently.
The title Academician denotes a full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Law.
An attorney under the Law “On the Bar and Advocate's Activity” can be a person who has higher legal education, stated by the diploma of Ukraine, or in line with the international treaties of Ukraine diploma of a foreign country, the work experience in the field of law no less than two years, fluent in the Language of the State, has passed a qualification exam, received a certificate entitling him to practice law, and taken the Ukrainian Oath of the Attorney.
A list of attorneys is kept and published by the Supreme Qualification Bar Commission of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
[7] To represent a client in a non-criminal case or to be an in-house a person must have a higher legal education.
According to the law, the Notariate is a system of bodies and officials obliged to certify rights, certify facts that have legal force and perform other notary actions as stated in the law with the purpose of giving them legal force.
is issued on numerated, special paper form, protected by security features and is registered in the notary's records which is kept after completion in regional (oblast) archives indefinitely.
[11] In Ukraine and other civil law jurisdictions, the jury holds equal power to three professional judges.
A person unable to provide passport is allowed to be arrested and held in police custody for up to 72 hours in order to establish the identity thereof.
