Title: Protection of honour and dignity: theoretical and practical issues

Authors: Yuri Zaika; Oleksandr Kukhariev; Volodymyr Skrypnyk; Serhii Burlakov; Oleh Ilkiv

Addresses: Department of Private Law Problems, Academician F.H. Burchak Scientific and Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship, National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine ' Department of Civil Law and Procedure, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine ' Department of Branch Legal Sciences, Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, Kremenchuk, Ukraine ' Supreme Court (Ukraine), Kyiv, Ukraine ' Department of Civil Law Disciplines, Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities, Rivne, Ukraine

Abstract: The study identifies the features of protecting honour and dignity as personal intangible goods of a person and objects of legal protection. The protection of the honour and dignity of a person is of exceptional importance for ensuring an appropriate mechanism for the exercise of personal intangible rights of subjects. The study defends the position that the protection of human honour and dignity should be carried out in the plane of both private and public law. The problematic issues of the studied objects are manifested in the need to define the boundaries of freedom of speech and its relationship with the right to protect honour and dignity, which is associated with the rapid development of communication tools and the internet. Most often, a person's honour and dignity are violated by spreading misinformation.

Keywords: personal intangible rights; honour; dignity; defamation; methods of protection; refutation of false information.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPLAP.2022.124423

International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 2022 Vol.8 No.3/4, pp.202 - 214

Received: 06 Dec 2021
Accepted: 02 Feb 2022
Published online: 26 Jul 2022 *

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