Finland Times

 

Former President of the Supreme Court Pauliine Koskelo. File Photo – Lehtikuva.

The articles and provisions in the constitution are sometimes difficult to understand for the common people and the constitutional rights such as equality is not seen to be accorded sufficient protection from the legislators, according to a report by the think tank Libera.

 

Former President of the Supreme Court Pauliine Koskelo, who is involved in writing the report on the loopholes in the enacted law and the Constitutional Law Committee procedures, believes that the decision of the Constitutional Law Committee relies too much on a small number of ex-perts. 

 

For this reason, Koskelo would raise the number of experts and would also develop preventive control measures from now on.

 

“Preventive control means that before a law is approved it is assessed for constitutional defects. The defects may be corrected before the law enters force,” said Koskelo.

 

Preventive control is, however, not enough. Koskelo proposed that a court charged with constitu-tion supervisory role should be constituted.

 

“Coming into being of constitutional interpretation is multifaceted. We need a last resort, which will be capable of forming its interpretation which in the end will be observed,” said Koskelo.

 

Koskelo expressed confidence that increased scrutiny would improve the possibilities of citizens to invoke their constitutional rights.