Constitutional Criteria of Legal Certainty: the Conflict of Formal and Material Aspects on the Example of Individual Court Cases

The author analyzes the issue of possible contradictions arising between various aspects of the principle of legal certainty. The author considers the issue of the conflict between the formal and material aspects of legal certainty on the example of cases of protection of electoral rights and cases of administrative offenses. Based on the practice of courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts, possible manifestations of a conflict of formal and material aspects of legal certainty requirements are illustrated.