European human rights standards

Given the need to bring Ukrainian law in line with the norms and principles of international law, it is important to study European legal experience and European legal doctrine. The purpose of the article is to study the current problems of using the legal positions of the ECtHR in the decisions of Ukrainian courts. The study found that despite the legal consolidation of the status of ECtHR decisions as a source of law in Ukraine, the reasons that hinder the proper application of ECtHR practice are the lack of a systematic and well-established methodology for motivating court decisions using effective interpretative interpretation of ECtHR on specific decisions.The need to develop practical recommendations and methods of direct use of the practice of the Strasbourg court in the decisions of Ukrainian courts is pointed out. The methodological basis of the study is a dialectical method of cognition, which allows to explore problems in the unity of their social content and legal form, logical-semantic method, method of synthesis, system-structural method, sociological and statistical method and others. The practical significance of the obtained results is determined by the ability to increase the role of ECtHR decisions in ensuring human and civil rights in a democratic society.