immunity

The article deals with the issue of parliamentary immunity, in particular, indemnity and immunity, as key elements of protection of MPs from political persecution. The author analyses the international experience of parliamentary immunity and its restrictions in different countries, including Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia, the United States of America and others. Particular attention is paid to the position of the Venice Commission, which recommends maintaining immunity in countries with transitional democracies.

This article is dedicated to analizing constitutional-legal and criminal procedural issuesof limiting or legislative deprivation of the special status of certain possible participants in thejudiciary, of the actual implementation of the principle of equality of all before the law was5examined. It was done a comparative monitoring of legislative regulation of the Institute ofparliamentary immunity in the sphere of criminal proceedings in Ukraine and some foreigncountries.