Lahovskyi V. Judicial authorities in the mechanism of the rule of law: the general theoretical aspects of functioning.

The thesis is devoted to complex research of theoretical and legal principles of the judiciary in the mechanism of law. The judicial branch is potentially vulnerable to executive power, because it cannot independently exercise his defense and the means of state coercion has no material and financial resources. The thesis concludes that judges should be independent of the executive, the legislature, and its leadership, but in the case of low culture being very independent judiciary that is completely isolated from all forms of influence Ukrainian nation and state agencies that provide combat corruption, is impossible. In the thesis the place and role of public authorities in the mechanism of law and judicial independence factors in terms of state transition. The thesis concludes that the functions of national courts have the external form of expression of that derived from modern Ukraine signs a legal, democratic state with a market economy.