AXIOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGAL CERTAINTY

Abstract

The issue of the functional value of the principle of legal certainty in modern state lawmaking
and law-enforcement policies remains today topical. This is due to the fact that any legal regulatory activity should be formulated quite definitely, excluding the possibility of ambiguous understanding and interpreting. Legal certainty should be understood as a legally qualitative uniform presentation, understanding, interpretation and implementation of normative legal acts, which promotes subjects of legal relations to predict the result of legal consequences in advance. The principle of legal certainty is a basic, system-forming, general legal principle that dialectically complements and develops other general legal, intersectoral and sectoral principles. The essence of other principles cannot be fully disclosed in isolation from it, since the implementation of any of them is always commensurate with the principle of legal certainty. Deficiencies in the field
of legal certainty cause inconveniences or harm not only to a particular person, a group of persons, a collective or a society, but also to the state itself, since the low effectiveness of the
legal norms it has adopted does not contribute to the achievement of the set goals and objectives, but compromises state power, is economically flawed, and also generates a nihilistic attitude to the law.