MEDALLION OF JUDGE OF UKRAINE: ELEMENT OF JUDICIAL SYMBOLISM
MEDALLION OF JUDGE OF UKRAINE: ELEMENT OF JUDICIAL SYMBOLISM
УДК 340.12
ORCID 0000-0002-7844-238
ORCID 0000-0002-6115-0884
DOI 10.37566/2707-6849-2021-3(36)-3
Oleksii KRAVCHUK
Oleksiy Kravchuk, Judge of the High Anti Corruption Court, Doctor of Science of Law, Associate Professor,
IvanOSTASHCHUK
Professor of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Doctor of Science of Philosophy, Professor
Medallion of judge of ukraine: element of judicial symbolism
The authors argue that the symbolic elements of the judicial system of Ukraine appear not only as a manifestation of conservative tradition, but also designed to retransmit the meanings of fair and impartial justice. For this purpose, they consider the example of the recently approved medallion of a judge of Ukraine (2020) with historical context of the formation of judicial symbols in 1991 – 2021. The close attention of experts and the public of Ukraine to the judicial reform, which has been going on in Ukraine for several years, also concerns the procedure of judicial proceedings. After all, this procedure is characterized by certain rules and attributes, to understand the meaning of which it is important to analyze the historical perspective of the formation of the traditions of litigation in European civilization.
The purpose of the article is to analyze the semantic connotations of the medallion of judges of Ukraine in the context of judicial symbols to reveal its meaning in the modern judicial process. The following scientific methods were used: historical and cultural (in the representation of general cultural features and conditions of formation and formation of the tradition of judicial symbolism in Western civilization), semiotic (in the explication of semantic connotations of visual images of the approved medallion of a judge of Ukraine), systemic (in full modern Ukrainian judiciary).
The context of the formation of judicial symbols in the paradigm of European traditional culture of the Middle Ages and the New Age, in which the symbolism and metaphorical understanding of reality were important in the picture of the world, is studied in the article. The development of legislation on judicial symbols in Ukraine is represented.
New medallion of a judge of Ukraine approved in 2020 as a part of the official judicial symbols is presented. There are main two symbols, scales and a column on the modern medallion of the judge. In the symbol of scales from archaic times, the idea of trial of the person was conventionally put. The Old Testament notions of Yahweh as a fair judge were transformed in the medieval Christian worldview of Jesus Christ, who will administer the Last Judgment. The ideas of reliability, stability, freedom and justice are the main symbolic connotations of the symbol of the column.
It is highlighted that the semantic connotations of the judge's medallion are intended to represent not only the historical aspect of the traditional nature of the court session as part of one of the oldest and most important institutions of the state. They also signify the personal traits of a judge required to administer fair justice.
Keywords:medallion of judge of Ukraine, court dress, judicial symbols, column symbol, scale symbol, symbolic meaning.
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