CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE SUPREME COURT AS A COURT OF LAW IN UKRAINE

The article reveals the features of the constitutional and legal status of the Supreme Court as a court of law in Ukraine. It has been established that the constitutional and legal status of the Supreme Court is regulated by the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine «On the Judicial System and the Status of Judges» and the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine. Analysis of the legislation allows us to note that the Supreme Court is the highest court in the judicial system in Ukraine. The composition of the Supreme Court is formed by the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court, the Administrative Cassation Court, the Criminal Cassation Court and the Civil Cassation Court. It has been established that the President of the Supreme Court is elected to office, and also dismissed from office based on the results of a secret ballot held by the Plenum of the Supreme Court. The constitutional and legal status of the Supreme Court makes it possible to single out such basic functions of the Supreme Court as: the function of administering justice, during which the Supreme Court acts as a court of cassation; the function of analyzing judicial statistics, as well as summarizing judicial practice; the function of providing conclusions on draft legislative acts directly related to the judicial system; the function of providing an opinion on the presence or absence of signs of committing high treason or other crime in the acts for which charges are brought against the President of Ukraine, for committing high treason or other crime; the function of providing appellate and local courts with proper methodological information on law enforcement issues, etc. It has been determined that the professional activity of the Supreme Court contributes to ensuring the observance of the principle of equality of all before the law and requires ensuring at the same time the achievement of the unity of judicial practice. It is noted that the prospects for further research in this direction are the study of the legal status of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine as a body of constitutional jurisdiction, the main function of which is to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution of Ukraine.