Problems of staffing in the court staff of local, appellate and higher specialized courts of Ukraine
Abstract
The article is devoted to a significant problem for public management and administration, which consists in insufficient staffing of the staff of local, appellate and higher specialized courts of Ukraine. The article considers “staffing of court staff” as the process of creating the necessary conditions for court staff employees who perform the task of “providing justice with all necessary resources”.
The international community emphasizes the need to implement the principle of efficiency in the judicial system, which is of particular importance in the mechanism of ensuring justice. It is noted that the efficiency of staffing of court staff is considered as a measure of the effectiveness of the ensuring mechanism in the judicial system.
In the legislative initiatives of Ukraine, there is a tendency to regulate the issues of material support for court staff employees. At the same time, these problems negatively affect the prestige of the service. In addition to them, the following are problematic: the length of the working day; emotional stress of employees; the lack of regulation of issues of mobilization of court staff; the unpreparedness of some courts for the digitalization of judicial proceedings; the lack of a strategy for the professionalization of public service personnel in the courts. Such problems require a prompt response from the state, even in conditions of martial law.
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