Magistro baigiamajame darbe aptariamas Lietuvos teisinėje sistemoje įtvirtintas apkaltos procesas – aukščiausių valstybės pareigūnų konstitucinės atsakomybės forma. Darbe nagrinėjami įvairūs apkaltos proceso elementai: aptariamas teisės pažeidimas kaip konstitucinės atsakomybės taikymo pagrindas, apkaltos proceso eiga ir jos reglamentavimo raida Lietuvoje, apkaltos proceso teisinių pasekmių klausimai. Darbe aptariama tiek konstitucinė apkaltos proceso samprata, tiek ir ordinarinėje teisėje įtvirtintas reguliavimas, taip pat praktinio pobūdžio problemos bei klausimai, kilę apkaltos procesą reglamentuojančias normas taikant praktikoje. Nagrinėjama, ar ordinarinėje teisėje įtvirtintas reguliavimas visada atitinka konstitucinę apkaltos sampratą, kokių priemonių vienu ar kitu metu turėjo imtis įstatymų leidėjas, siekdamas užtikrinti Seimo statute ar kituose teisės aktuose išdėstytų apkaltos proceso elementų atitiktį Konstitucijai. Darbo pabaigoje, atsižvelgiant į Europos Žmogaus Teisių Teismo sprendimą byloje Paksas prieš Lietuvą bei šio sprendimo įgyvendinimo problematiką, aptariami įvairių subjektų pateikti pasiūlymai, kaip turėtų būti keičiami vidaus teisės aktai, susiję su apkaltos proceso teisinių pasekmių klausimu. / This master thesis concentrates on impeachment procedures as it is a form of constitutional liability of highest state officials in Lithuania. There is a number of aspects of the impeachment procedure that are analysed in this paper: a violation of a law as a ground for applying constitutional liability, elements of impeachment procedure and the evolution of them through the years since Constitution of Lithuania was adopted in 1992, the questions concerning legal consequences of impeachment. In this paper it is analysed both the constitutional concept of impeachment and it‘s regulation in ordinary law and also the problems and questions that arose in practice when the legal norms regulating imeachment have been applied. Part of the research concentrates on whether the regulation in ordinary law is always compatible with the constitutional provisions and also what steps legislative had to make to make sure that Statute of Seimas or other acts are in accordance with Constitution. As European Court of Human Rights declared in it‘s verdict of the case Paksas v. Lithuania that Lithuania violated Article 3 of Protocol 1 of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by establishing unconditional and permanent prohibition to participate in parliamentary elections for a person guilty of breach of oath and thus removed from office, the proposals made to amend the Lithuanian legal system are also investigated.

This present article “An institution of impeachment in Lithuanian constitutional law” analyses the origins of this institution in national law, gives a comparative analysis of constitutional regulation of an impeachment procedure in Lithuania and in other states. The paper presents the definition of “institution of impeachment”, shows an importance of this institution in Lithuanian and in West States law, the problems of implementation of this institution and the process of impeachment in Parliament and in Constitutional Courts. The paper analyses an evolution of this institute in common law counties – especially in USA and in civil law countries. The paper shows the list of impeachment subjects and the grounds of impeachment application. Also it analyses the part of Constitutional Court in the process of impeachment. It should be mentioned that only the Court can decide if the Constitution was outraged, the crime or the perjury was done. The official constitutional doctrine of the Constitutional Court shows the actual limits and grounds of the constitutional liability application. That means, that the constitutional jurisprudence, not the Constitution provisions shows actual features of impeachment institution. Also the ratio of law and fact in the impeachment process is analyzed. The present article discusses the question of Constitutional Court established facts and the question of legal consequences originated from the useful impeachment procedure application to persons... [to full text]