The use of special psychological knowledge in compensation for non-pecuniary damage on the example of a traffic accident

The theoretical and practical questions of compensation for moral damage in civil legal proceedings on the basis of studying materials of court cases of national courts and analysis of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are researched. In the context of the above, an author's approach in applying the norms of civil procedural legislation to optimize the mechanism of compensation for moral damage is proposed. The author stresses the need for the court to take into consideration the conclusions of psychologists or experts in the field of law on determining the level of moral harm to a person who is consistent with the principle of fair trial. As for the advice provision (conclusion, excerpt from a protocol etc.) of a psychologist to the evidence status in a civil case, there are important arguments in favor of this that laid in the relevant procedural law by the legislator. The legislator in Part 1 of Art. 76 (name – “Evidence”) of the CPC of Ukraine has written that evidences are any data on the basis of which the court establishes the presence or absence of circumstances (facts) which are substantiating the demands and objections of the participants of the case, and other circumstances that are relevant for the resolution of the case. In this case, the plaintiff should give the court a conclusion of the individual psychological consultation or extraction from the protocol of such psychological examination, which will determine the degree of moral hazard and the statement (definition) of its size in cash equivalent. Such a conclusion should preferably be filed together with a statement of claim or separately by way of a statement of claim under Art. 83 of the CPC of Ukraine about admission as evidence of causing non-pecuniary damage to materials of the case «extraction of the protocol of the individual psychological. We believe that the mechanism for providing compensation for moral harm to a person in the course of civil proceedings should take place, in addition to the conclusion of a specialist (expert) – a psychologist and other circumstances determined by the Law, also taking into account the amount of salary established by the legislation at the moment of consideration of the case by the court for each month of stay of the plaintiff in a state dispute (conflict) with the defendant.