Constitutional Control over the Decisions of Ordinary Courts: Experience and Perspectives of the South Caucasus States
Keywords:
constitutional control in South Caucasus, judicial review, real constitutional control.Abstract
The place and importance of the Constitutional Law between the state authorities are mostly conditioned with independence of the hereof institution and the competent arsenal thereof. The real Constitutional control occupies the particular place amongst the authorities of the Constitutional Law. The hereby Article aims at estimation of legislative reality of the real control and the Constitutional justice in the South Caucasian countries. The Article considers the essence and importance of phenomenon of real Constitutional control, the place of the Constitutional law in Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia, estimates direct impact of this institution on the Constitutional justice and prospects of real control in South Caucasus countries.
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