The Constitutional Court can:
Examine your complaint about a legal provision that violates your human rights
This means that you can only complain about a legal provision if you believe that it violates your human rights because it is contrary to the Constitution.
If your application is accepted, the court can determine whether the legal provision you are complaining about violated your human rights. If the court concludes that there was a violation of your rights, it can declare that the legal provision has lost its force. The Court can decide whether the provision will no longer be in force from the day of the judgement onwards, or from an earlier date.
The Constitutional Court cannot grant you compensation for a violation of your rights. If the court has declared that a certain legal provision has violated your rights, you must apply for compensation in a court of general jurisdiction or ask the institution which has applied that provision to revoke its decision and to compensate you.
The Constitutional Court cannot:
The Constitutional Court can only carry out those tasks which it is allowed to do under the Constitutional Court Law. It has very specific functions and it does not have the same power to review specific disputes as higher courts in Ukraine. Therefore, it cannot:
- examine complaints about the actions of private companies and persons
- revoke or change decisions of courts or state institutions
- re-examine the evidence of national court cases
- punish state officials or private individuals
- grant compensation to you due to violations of your human rights