Legal regulation of social protection of persons enforcing decisions in Ukraine

Sinova, L., Berdar, M., Kuchma, O., Sirokha, D., & Berdar, M. (2024). Legal regulation of social protection of persons enforcing decisions in Ukraine. Social and Legal Studios, 7(2), 28-35. https://doi.org/10.32518/sals2.2024.28

The professional activities of qualified personnel are essential to ensure the full enforcement of judgments at the proper level. Therefore, the issue of studying and improving the social security of bailiffs always remains relevant. The study aims to determine the current legal regulation of social protection of persons ensuring the enforcement of judgments in Ukraine. The basis of scientific cognition was the formal legal method, with the help of which several legislative acts regulating the social security of public and private bailiffs were studied. The study identified the main legal provisions governing the social protection of persons engaged in the enforcement of decisions, identified the main shortcomings of the social security mechanism for public and private bailiffs, identified gaps and conflicts contained in the legislation on social security of civil servants, and analysed the legal provisions governing the remuneration of public and private bailiffs, their pension and social security in case of disability. After reviewing several legislative acts, the author conducted a comparative analysis of the social protection of public and private bailiffs and determined their legal status and peculiarities of legal regulation of social security of public bailiffs in the system of social protection of civil servants. The several ways to improve the legislation and specific practical steps to ensure that social guarantees for public and private bailiffs are at the appropriate level are indefined. The practical significance of the study is that through a detailed study of the current legislation in the field of social protection of persons ensuring the enforcement of decisions, it is possible to identify positive and negative aspects in the mechanism of social protection and further significantly improve the social guarantees of public and private bailiffs at the legislative level