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15 Baltic J.L. & Pol. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/bjlp15 and id is 1 raw text is: BALTIC JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICS A Journal of Vytautas Magnus University VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 (2022) ISSN 2029-0454 sc en do Cit.: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 15:1 (2022): 1-30 https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bjlp/bjlp- overview.xml DOI: 10.2478/bjlp-2022-0001 INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLAINTS IN LITHUANIA: AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY TO BE EXHAUSTED BEFORE APPLYING TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS? Dovile Puraite-Andrikiene Assistant Professor, PhD Vilnius University, Faculty of Law (Lithuania) Contact information Address: Sauletekio al. 9, LT-10222 Vilnius Phone: + 370 5 236 6175 E-mail address: dovile.puraite-andrikiene@tf.vu.It Received: June 21, 2021; reviews: 2; accepted: June 2, 2022. ABSTRACT Although the significance of an individual constitutional complaint mechanism is mostly associated with the national constitutional protection of human rights, it is a no less significant remedy in the context of the international human rights protection system. Individual constitutional complaints can be considered an effective domestic legal remedy to be exhausted before applying to the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR). However, the answer to the question of whether proceedings in a constitutional justice institution fall within the scope of such domestic remedies is very complex and may vary from case to case. Whether it will be required to exhaust an individual constitutional complaint procedure before filing a complaint with the ECtHR will largely depend on the legal system of the state and the scope of the powers of the constitutional justice institution.