The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania and European Standards of the Right to Court

The purpose of this article is to analyse the constitutional basis for the activity the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania and to represent the functions of this Court in respect of the harmonization of national and transnational defence mechanisms of human right to a fair trial. The article is divided into several basic parts: first of all, it shows the constitutional grounds for the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, the creation and the relevant characteristics of its status and activities; later, the article discusses the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, which analyses the right to a fair trial; the article ends with an assessment of the impact of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union for the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court while defending the right to a fair trial.