Countering Abuse of Subjective Rights as Exemplified by the Right to Public Information

The rights granted to individuals often create a temptation to abuse them. Abuse of rights usually violates the rights and freedoms of other people, so the legislature is right to take a negative view of it. However, this translates into specific legislative measures aimed at countering this phenomenon to varying degrees. Not infrequently, it is the addressees of legal norms, legal scholarship and the judiciary that are compelled to develop methods of countering abuses not explicitly envisaged by the legislature. The article aims to show both the methods of countering abuse of rights that are already in place and those that could be used, taking into account the axiology of a given right. The right to public information will serve as an example.