Influence of the european court of human rights decisions on the norma-forming and judicial practice (experience of Bulgaria)

The European Court of Human Rights plays an important role in the resolution of interstate cases and individual complaints. Therefore, the main goal of the work is to analyze the impact of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on normative and judicial practice. For the object of study, the experience of Bulgaria is accepted. The article analyzes two pilot decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which found violation of the requirements of Article 6 of the 1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by the Bulgarian courts. After receiving the status of the final by these decisions, the Bulgarian parliament passed laws that changed and supplemented the normative acts with provisions aimed in the future to avoid violations similar to those found by the European Court of Human Rights. The author examined these changes in legislation, acts of state bodies that were adopted after the entry into force, in order to illustrate the impact of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on improving the norms of national laws

pilot decision, reasonable term of judicial proceedings, legal protection, compensation, criminal case.