The article pays attention to crucial aspects of the amendments of the Constitution of Ukraine (concerning justice) in the context of the court system authority. It determines positive and negative approaches in the course of implementation of judicial reform. The article analyses the ways of improvement of constitutional novelties regarding each subject in particular.
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