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COMPARATIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS
CIVIL-LAW PROTECTION OF HONOR,
DIGNITY AND BUSINESS REPUTATION
IN THE CIVIL LEGISLATION OF
UZBEKISTAN AND JAPAN
Iroda Yakubova
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy), Acting Associate Professor of Tashkent State University of Law,
Yulduzkhon Satvaldieva
Lecturer of Tashkent State University of LawTashkent, Uzbekistan. Sayilgoh street,34
Abstract. The main purpose of this article is to study the legislation of Uzbekistan and
Japan from a comparative point of view, to study the methods of protection of reputation of
honor, dignity and business reputation, to study the creation of effective protection
measures using information and communication technologies, to formulate single
scientific approaches and hypotheses on the basis, measures, methods and principles of
civil law. The main focus is on the main goals of improving the judicial system in
accordance with the Uzbekistan’s Five-Area Development Strategy for 2017-2021 in
general and proposals for further improvement of the legislation were formed on the basis
of the approach, proposed by the author. Also, this article analyzes the methods and means
of civil law protection of reputation, dignity and business reputation, the issues of judicial
order protection. The author argues that it is possible to assess the actions of the offender
and determine the method of protecting the rights of the victim by analyzing such criteria
as reputation-undermining, notorious data, non-compliance with reality.
Keywords: personal non-property rights, intangible values, honor, dignity, business
reputation, personal information, defamatory information, civil law protection, respect the
rights, individual rights, inalienable rights, refutation, value, freedom, human rights.
1.Introduction:
In the world, the issues of personal non-property rights and their protection are
becoming increasingly global. In particular, in the UN resolution 72/439 on the full
implementation of the Universal Declaration of human rights on December 19, 2017 and its
impact on the full implementation of all human rights, it is noted that the issues related to
personal non-property rights are one of the most urgent problems of individual, society and
state life. In this regard, it is noted that the expansion of cooperation between the
international community and the state aimed of the protection of personal non-property
rights, which is considered to be the most indispensable value of man, is the demand of the
present time.
On the basis of the analysis of the legal framework for the protection of honor, dignity
and business reputation of citizens around the world, the study of the positive achievements
and advanced experience of the legislation of developed foreign countries in this regard, the
directions of finding a scientific solution to the problems associated with national legislation
and practice of law enforcement are topical. Consequently, it is important to study the
legislation of Uzbekistan and Japan from a comparative point of view, to develop methods of
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protection of individual types of non-property rights, to create effective protection measures
using information and communication technologies, to formulate hypotheses, and to develop
scientific views and hypotheses on the civil-legal basis, measures, methods of protection of
honor, dignity and business reputation.
Objectives of the study: development of a definition that reveals its essence on the
basis of comparative analysis of the concepts, essence and signs of personal non-property
rights in the legislation of Uzbekistan and Japan; to give a description to civil-legal protection
of honor, dignity and reputation of workers as types of personal non-property rights;
development of recommendations on improvement of civil-legal protection of honor and
dignity and reputation of workers; development of measures to eliminate existing
shortcomings on the basis of studying the problems of civil and legal protection of honor and
dignity and reputation of workers.
From the point of view of principles common to all mankind Constitution of Republic
of Uzbekistan includes norms which aimed to protect honor and dignity and adherence to
human rights and principles.
In particular, the constitution of Uzbekistan refers norms, Democracy in the Republic
of Uzbekistan shall be based on the principles common to all mankind according to which the
ultimate value is a human being, his life, freedom, honor, dignity and other inalienable rights,
Democratic rights and freedoms shall be protected by the Constitution and laws article 13,
Everyone shall be entitled to protection against encroachments on his honor, dignity,
interference in his private life, inviolability of his home.
No one shall have the right to enter a home, carry out a search or an examination,
violate the privacy of correspondence and telephone conversations except for case and
procedure prescribed by law (article 27), Citizens shall be obliged to observe the Constitution
and laws, and to respect the rights, freedoms, honor and dignity of others (article 48).
Therefore, the protection of honor and dignity in accordance with the Constitution entrusted
to the state. State considers its main purpose to ensure the protection of honour and dignity of
human. State regulation of social relations based on the principles of democracy, rule of law.
It appears the protection of honor and dignity.
At the same time, unless honor and dignity are not recognized and protected in the
society, in this society there will not be fairness, honesty, legality, and stability and appears
the problem of implementation of main functions of state.
METHOD AND MATERIALS:
The study of civil law protection of the personal non-property rights was conducted
using comparative legal, historical and system-structural. Thus, the historical approach was
used to cover the historical aspects of the emergence and formation of personal rights in
foreign countries, such as Japan and in Uzbekistan. Comparison of the experience of
international states and Uzbekistan regarding the civil law protection of the personal nonproperty rights was carried out using the comparative legal method. An analysis of the latest
scientific publications devoted to the study of personal rights, generalization and presentation
of the results of the study allowed system structural method.
The role and meanings of the personal non-property rights in the legislation of
Uzbekistan and Japan
The consolidation of norms on protection of honor and dignity of the person as well as
the implementation and following them by governmental and non-governmental agencies
without exclusions prevents the unpleasant events in the society (Rakhmankulov, 2009).
According to Kavai Takashi, the law of Understanding that defines the content of a
person's specific interests of human rights. The human person, freedom, dignity (JCC, Article
710), the life and health (Article JCC 711) as well as personal interests are protected by the
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Civil Code, in addition, be committed to the civil law, the name, image, keep rights and
personal rights are recognized (Kavai Takashi, 2008). Individual rights to life, health, dignity
and the rights to the image, that is, the person is not possible to separate the interests of the
public life the rights (Mori Izumi Akira, 2008). According to Japanese scientist Kato, a
person's life, health, honor, dignity, name, inviolability of private life, personal secrets, the
right to image, and the person may alienate the rights of human rights are closely linked with
the person (Kato).
According to the civil code of Uzbekistan article 100 A citizen has the right to demand
in court the refutation of communications defaming his honor, dignity, or business reputation,
unless the person who disseminated such communications proves that they correspond to
reality. Upon demand of interested persons, the protection of honor and dignity of a citizen is
allowed even after his death. If communications defaming his honor, dignity, or business
reputation are disseminated in media of mass information, they must be refuted in the same
media of mass information. If these communications are contained in a document coming
from an organization, such document is subject to retraction or recall.
The procedure for refutation in other cases shall be established by the other court. A
citizen, with respect to whom media of mass information have published communications
defaming his rights or interests protected by a Law, shall have the right to publish his answer
in the same media of mass information. If a decision of a court is not performed, the court
shall have the right to impose on the violator a fine recovered in the amount and in the
manner provided by legislation. The payment of the fine shall be free the violator of the
obligation to take the action provided by the decision of the court. A citizen, with respect to
whom communications are disseminated defaming his honor, dignity, or business reputation,
shall have the right, along with the refutation of such communications to demand
compensation for losses and moral harm caused by their dissemination. The rules of the
present Article on the protection of business reputation of a citizen shall be applied
correspondingly to the protection of the business reputation of a legal entity.
In this place, we should highlight the concept of “defaming the honor”. Cause if honor,
dignity, or business reputation of human is violated, it is important to differentiate the
evaluation of information which is the “defaming the honor”.
The issue of honor is not only the category that expresses the inviolability but also his
life and business reputation. For example, January 30, 2004 with the decision № 2 of
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan approved the Code of Honor of the judge
of Constitutional court of Republic of Uzbekistan. According to the article 3 of the code
judge is prohibited to abuse his social status to satisfy the interests of others.
The judge must be careful in making friends and acquaintances, to desist from
communicating people who can defame their honor, also he should not allow the
imaginations which any person may influence the judge. In all cases, the judge consider
carefully its possible consequences of his every action. Protection of honor and dignity is one
of the fundamental personal rights and they need to be protected as exclusive rights like
proprietary law. As an exception it is necessary to mention that evaluation of work of public
officers or representatives of people as well as criticism and expression of critical opinion
about them, for example if they are accused of bribery or other abuse of authority without any
proof or evidence, will not be regarded as discrimination of their dignity. They must perceive
various critical opinions correctly because they were elected, trusted and entitled by people.”
(Shiomi Yoshio, 2008)
It is necessary to mention that the rules in article 100 of the Civil Code mainly refer to
citizens but its rules on protection of business reputation are also applied to legal entities. The
definition of the protection object in the article from this point of view is very narrow that
becomes apparent in many cases.
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Institution under our consideration is not properly regulated because it makes an
impression that every citizen and legal entity can have business reputation.” (Jurayev, 2010).
We cannot subscribe to this view because according to the mentioned norm refutation is
required only if the information is defamatory. If accuracy of the information is proved a
court will reject protection of the victim.
There should be three conditions of protection of the honor and dignity of human. First
of all, the information should be real defaming the honor and humiliating the dignity, second
of all, it should be disseminated, third of all, these information shoul correspond to reality.
The court must scrutiny these conditions in the process of trial.
In this regard, June 19, 1992, №5-PD-92, in the resolution of the Plenum of the
Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan "on application of laws on protection of honor,
dignity and business reputation of citizens and organizations in judicial practice made a
number of recommendations for the courts.
In accordance with paragraph 8 of the resolution, dissemination of information
discrediting the honor, dignity and business reputation of a legal entity or legal person, it is
understood their publication in mass media, inclusion in professional references, public
speeches, statements to State officials, or communication in other forms, including oral
multiple parties, or at least one person. The message of such information only the person
whom it concerns, cannot be recognized by their dissemination. It may not be recognized as
valid claim for denial of information containing untrue criticism of shortcomings in work
behavior in a public place, or in everyday life.
Practical realization of the norms on court protection of honor and dignity firstly,
requires clarification of what we understand under defamation. According to practitioners and
scientists, (Rakhmankulov, 2006) defamation includes a process of bringing false information
about a person to one or several people by any means.
In legal literatures, it mentioned that if this information disseminated in the presence
of family it has negative impact on business reputation. There is not any difference who is
disseminated this information, the main issue is that the information is disseminated
(Hasanov, 2003).
A citizen hasn’t the right to demand in court the refutation of communications
defaming his honor, dignity, or business reputation, unless the person himself gives this
information to other people. By these acts he helps to the public to form of evaluation of his
personality.
Information that applies to a person, if this person is informed, it can not be
recognized as the dissemination of information. Therefore lawyers M.G.Pronina and
A.N.Romanovich said "third parties, this information is not known, it seems this information
can not influence the assessment of citizens the public"(Pronina, Ramanovich, 1976).
It may concluded from the above-mentioned such information which defaming his
honor, humiliating dignity, or business reputation is not disseminated to third parties, for
example, if someone says it aloud to himself or or other personal black letters, leaflets written
information such as audio, video used other devices but it is not disclosed to other people it is
not distribution of information.
For the right of claim, there is not difference which ways the defendant gives the
information to dishonor the plantiff as the limitations of form of dissemination is not
consolidated (Belyavskiy, 1966). Defamatory information can cause a serious problem for the
victim even if only one person is aware about it.” Therefore the view on “providing a right to
bring an action and to demand prohibiting defamation” in legal literature seems to be quite
reasonable. (Nasriyev, 2006)”
the Civil Code provides liability for damage caused by infringement of personal rights
and appropriate measures for restoring the reputation of the victim and prevention of the
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further law violation. This rule is provided at article 723 of the Civil Code. Lawsuits
concerning protection of personal information need to recognize also the method of
protection of the same law. This view is also supported by court practice (collection of the
Supreme Court judgments, No. 1802, September 24, 2002, page 60) (Kavai Takashi, 2008).
Dissemination of information and data in verbal is realized by the means of tongue
based on the conscience and dictionary by the means of verbal and grammatical system.
In theory of law, in accordance with opinions, which the characters of “defaming
honor” information is depend on the victim’s personality and especially, his age (Collective
authors,1969). Here, in our opinion, we agree with this. Expecting from young man who has
got passport recently to become family man is illogical.
Being family man is obtained over the years and it is a social virtue it is gained by
taking responsibility for the fate of the family. According to the views of some authors in the
field of private life information which disgracing and defaming honor dignity and business
reputation, for instance, which not express the action of citizens like “stupid man” “illiterate
writer” may not be considered as a ground for meet the requirement. This kind of claims
maynot be appropriate object of verification and they can not be subject to judicial review
(Chernisheva, 1966).
False information, which does not damage honor, dignity and business reputation,
cannot be recognized as defamatory information (Ivanenko, 1998). Moreover, a demand to
refute dissemination of true critical information at work, public places, and in everyday life
cannot be recognized reasonable. Definition of defamation can be used as a proof for this
statement (Nasriyev, 2006).
Even when the cause for resentment, one can not make disgrace. Particularly, the
conditions of workers who have not received their salary for several months may be example
for this.
Established by Article 100 in the procedures of Civil Code is not consolidated the
theoretical basis of significant difference of the concepts of the protection of The honor and
dignity of a citizen or business reputation of citizen or legal entity in judicial order.
Information defaming his honor, dignity, or business reputation may be associated
with the behavior and conduct, human activities, changes in the behavior of citizens, negative
description of any moral qualities characteristics. Not only an incorrect assessment of
distorted interpretations of acts of applicant within the law and ethics, but information about
adverse action or circumstances of the crime may be the ground for the refutation in court.
There are various approaches in practice and literature of different countries to the
issue of when a court evaluates the disputed information in terms of defamation. In many
cases courts rejected claims on the grounds that such information does not discriminate or
damage reputation and for this reason does not refer to intangible values. Literature describes
possibility for such rejection. Particularly, a judge while considering a claim first of all needs
to decide whether the information caused damage to honor and dignity or not (Sergeyev,
1989).
Not correspondence to reality may include the information about facts and assessment
relating to the activities of person and it also be a number of information. It is possible that
information may be disseminated once or more times or it is realized by distributing data
successively more times. In meeting such category of claim, on the one hand, the case will be
based on actual confirmation of revealing defaming information about applicant and, on the
other hand, the confirmation of not correspondence to reality of conflicted information.
In the scientific literature analyzed the necessity of taking into consideration of
defaming information in the assessment of correspondence to reality. “if there are spread
information about someone abuse his family, in fact, he has abused his neighbors, the case
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won’t change, cause in both cases this human behavior should be condemned by society
strictly.”
In this regard appears one question about if any information is disseminated in a
particular form of artistic images, as a literary genre and by the other means what kind of
actions should be taken? In particular, information in the form of gossip or defamation
shouldn’t be rejected by the court (Belyavskiy, 1966).
In this case, the honor, dignity and business reputation of civil protection as a basis for
the application of Article 100 of the Civil Code, in our opinion, in the first place, it should be
referred the nature of the content of the information.
Satiric pictures, feleton, parody genres expressed by artists in film and television
satire and humor characterized by clearity and therefore this information may be sad and
painful for the person. The conflicts between citizens and legal entities on the court for some
reason, on the product of the author's creative writing, poetry and prose description of the
image, as well as compare and strokes are beyond the logic, because the results of works of
journalist, writer and poet without these artistic images as listed above will not be ideal.
In accordance with the article 100, part 2 of civil code of Republic of Uzbekistan
Upon demand of interested persons, the protection of honor and dignity of a citizen is
allowed even after his death.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this regard, the heirs of died person have the right to demand in court to restore his
honor and dignity and good name and to cover the compensation for moral damage. As an
example can be mentioned the restoration of names of victims of repression in the Soviet
Union. In July 22, 1999 adopted the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers № 358 “on
immortalization the memory of patriots for the freedom of homeland and people. In this
resolution identified a number of organizational measures for the implementation of “people
who shown courage in the struggle for freedom and independence of people, urged nation to
independence, on the purpose the immortalization the memory of repressed people in the
years of the totalitarian regime, to study their decent life and action, scientific heritage, in
order to strengthen the sense of patriotism and respect to courageous spirit of our ancestors,
the triumph of social justice, and devotion to homeland among the young people "
In this connection, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted Decree №
2837 "on commemorate the Day of Victims of Repression" May 1, 2001 and November 8
2002, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted resolution № 387 "The organization of museum for
the“Memory of Victims of Repression" the names of the victims of repression restored and
returned their works to our people.
The honor and dignity of person after death is protected on the general basis of civil
legislation in the form of succession. However it may not be restricted by the institute of
succession. The article 100 of Civil code of Uzbekistan refers upon demand of interested
persons, the protection of honor and dignity of a citizen is allowed even after his death. Here
it should be taken to consideration not only successors but also interested persons have the
right to demand protection of honor and dignity of a dead. As a interested person understood
the friends, students, masters and others.
Successors of dead person with respect to whom communications are disseminated
defaming his honor, dignity, or business reputation, shall have the
right, along with the refutation of such communications to demand compensation for losses
and moral harm caused by their dissemination.
The civil code of Republic of Uzbekistan refers the “refutation” as a measure of
protection of communications defaming his honor, dignity, or business reputation are
disseminated in media of mass information, they must be refuted in the same media of mass
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information. Refutation – is a special measure of protection in the condition of defaming
honor, dignity, or business reputation of person.
Regardless of existence of guilt, defamator should be liable for the information which
doesnot correspondent to reality. Therefore, article 40 of law “on Mass media” fixed the
liability for the violation of legislation in the sphere of mass media.
Chief editor and a journalist shall not be liable for the distribution of media materials
that do not correspond to reality, when this information:
taken from official reports, legal acts, or the data of the official statistical reporting, or
obtained through information agencies or the press-service of state power and
administration;
contained in the author's statements, broadcast without an appointment, or the literal
reproduction (shorthand, audio and video recording) performances
Hovewer, the refutation of these cases (in the form of notification of the decision of the
court) obligations entrusted to the editorial office of the media, violations of rights served as a
special protection measures. Article 100 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan
claims undermine certain information reported in several media, is also possible. All
defendants have rejected these claims, must not be regarded as such data was first distributed
to the media editorial responsibility entrusted to organizations or individuals who had
delivered them.
The procedure of refutation is consolidated in the law of mass media. Legal entity or
person has the right to demand from the editorial rebuttal published in the media of false and
discrediting his honor and dignity or business reputation. Legal entities and individuals
whose rights and legitimate interests have been violated as a result of the publication, the
right to publish in the mass media a refutation or response. Refutation or answer must be
published under a special heading in the same lane, which housed the material that caused the
emergence of a response.
Mandatory publication period in the newspapers - within one month from the date of
receipt of the refutation or response in other periodicals - in the next room. Refutation or
answer is obtained, edited television, radio, video, newsreel programs and other electronic
kinds of periodical dissemination of mass information broadcasted in the same program or
series of programs not later than one month from the date of receipt.
If the amount of the transfer and the refutation or response time can cause damage to
the media activities, it may be reasonable edit the text as agreed with the information source
or author.
Legal entitity or person may apply to a claim in the court in case of evasion of the
media to publish a refutation, answer or of violation of the publication date. In this regard it
should be noted that in the protection of honor, dignity and bussines reputation for the case of
the dissemination of defaming information the form of apologizing is effective method.
Based on these opinions we propose changes to the part 2 of article 100 of Civil code of
Republic of Uzbekistan to amend the measure of apologizing and to put the issue of
compromise of sides as an alternative way of demanding compensation for losses and moral
harm caused by their dissemination.
If the plaintiff’s demand is satisfied or the plaintiff renounces a claim, a court needs to
explain the consequences of such renunciation (termination of proceedings, absence of right
to bring a lawsuit on the same subject, on the same grounds and against the same defendant
again). If the renunciation of claim is not contrary to law and does not violate rights and
freedoms of the plaintiff or other persons, according to the rules of the part 3 of article 180 of
the Civil Procedural Code, the court shall issue an order on termination of proceeding.
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There needs to be a proof to recognize damage to honor and dignity. For example,
dissemination of negative information about the person accused of murder in mass media can
be recognized as defamation if this person is justified. But, if the fault of the person accused
is proved? In this case dissemination of negative information in mass media is regarded as
defamation and court can take into account the fact of conviction while determining the
amount of damage (Kavai Takashi, 2008).”
The disputed information must be defamatory to justify the plaintiff’s demands on
protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. This approach elaborated in the legal
science (Okyulov, 2004 ) has been supported by the court practice. Legal literature and court
practice contain examples of breaches of confidence. A person who committed a negative
action tells about it to another person and asks that person not to disseminate this information.
This person hopes that the information will not be disseminated. Nevertheless, information
about his action gradually spreads among other people. In this case the court cannot satisfy
the lawsuit of the victim because the legal norm does not provide for refutation of true
information. Our opinion can be supported by the following view: “in many cases
disseminated true information does not affect the positive image of a person. But it causes
deep personal suffering (for example, dissemination of information about AIDS decease,
insolvency of relatives etc.). (Nasriyev, 2006)”
Dissemination of true personal information is contrary to the interests of a person
because only he can dispose of the information about himself. Although the Civil Code of
Japan provides protection from this issue, such disputes were considered at courts. One of the
first disputes was connected with a work of literature “Mutsushima”. A candidate for mayor
of Tokyo was described as one of the characters in the work of literature which even
contained his photos. The candidate considered that his personal information was
disseminated illegally and brought a lawsuit against the author and the publishing house. He
demanded recovery of moral damage and apology. The court satisfied the claim and later the
sides achieved a peaceful agreement (Court of Tokyo, 1959.09.28.). (Kavai Takashi, 2008)
Unfortunately, legal acts of our country does not provide liability for dissemination of
information by such means. While special literature contains various views and opinions on
this issue. It is interesting that in Japan commitment of such actions is regarded as
infringement of personal non-material rights. Disputes on dissemination of personal
information without permission are very common in court practice of Japan. For example, “a
company requested information about work experience of a recruited person from a local
authority. And the local authority submitted information about conviction of this person. The
recruited person brought an action for dissemination of his personal information. The court
satisfied the claim on the grounds that information about conviction of this person is
connected with his honor and dignity and made a conclusion that this was an interest
protected by law from dissemination (Hasanov, 2003).
A student of the Japanese University submitted a questionnaire with his personal
information to the University administration. The Ministry of Inner Affairs requested
information about this student from the University and provided by the University
information was personal. When the student knew about it he brought an action against the
University for dissemination without his permission and infringement of his rights for
personal information. The court satisfied the claim (Collection of the Supreme Court civil law
judgments, 1976.07.17., volume 35, No. 3, and page 620).” (Kavai Takashi, 2008)
Some specialists believe that our legal acts on defamation lack for proportionality and
therefore consider them as controversial and conflicting conceptions. The other ones on the
contrary consider such views as incorrect. According to their opinion this information can be
disseminated because it does not influence on the assessment of a person by society although
dissemination of such information cause suffering and negative emotions in the soul of a
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person. In our opinion this issue requires a differentiated approach. Actually, there can be
different reasons for appearance of information blackening the name of a person. Particularly,
dissemination of information about negative actions and tricks of a subject can also be a
social demand or need for discussion with educative effect.
Dissemination of information about negative actions and tricks can be justified only if
they go beyond the personal scope and affect the interests of a group or society as a whole.
But we should not forget that it would not be correct to discriminate, punish and shame a
person for only one amoral action. Therefore, we believe that the above mentioned example
from the Japanese court practice can be a model for us.
Massiveness and truthfulness features of damage of honor and dignity are regarded as
one of the problems in the civil legislation. Article 230 of the Penal Code of Japan provides
that when an act damaging honor and dignity is found to relate to matters of public interest
and to have been conducted solely for the benefit of the public, the truth or falsity of the
alleged facts shall be examined, and punishment shall not be imposed if they are proven to be
true. The civil legislation not confining itself to these norms provides the following
provisions: if quite reliable information about the facts disseminated for the benefit of the
public turns out to be defamatory it is not regarded as damaging a person’s dignity. For
example, information concerning criminal and other illegal actions committed by a candidate
for the Parliament member’s position was disseminated. Court made a conclusion that honor
and dignity were not damaged (Collection of the Supreme Court civil law judgments,
judgment on 1961.06.23) because that candidate could be elected as a representative of
people. Without the massiveness character this case could be resolved in a different way. For
instance, a baby of three months old died from a disease and information blaming his parents
for the baby’s death was disseminated. This case was resolved in favor of the parents
(Collection of the Supreme Court civil law judgments, volume 26, No. 9, page 1637,
judgment on 1967.11.16.).” (Kavai Takashi, 2008)
CONCLUSION:
Therefore we consider that it is necessary to elaborate a draft of the resolution of the
Supreme Court’s Plenum aimed at strengthening protection of true personal information and
simplification of the process of consideration of cases referring to this kind of information.
Besides, we make a conclusion that it is necessary to add article 1095 of the Civil Code “A
right for protection of undisclosed information” with the following norms “a person has a
right for protection from illegal disseminating without his permission personal information
or undisclosed information i.e. information about person, family and profession privacy by
any means” to provide protection of personal information, in other words personal and family
privacy.
The court in its judgment describes the method for refutation of information which
damages honor, dignity and business reputation. And the court can choose one of methods for
refutation of defamatory information. It is natural that the date of refutation is also
determined by the court. The long standing practice proves the position that the method of
refutation of defamatory information needs to be relevant to the method of dissemination of
such information. And most of the judges follow this approach.
From the standpoint of comparative jurisprudence, based on the analysis of the
legislation of Uzbekistan and Japan, it is necessary to clearly define in the national legislation
types of intangible goods and personal non-property rights. Also, taking into account the
design of intangible goods and personal non-property rights, to revise the structure of Chapter
8 of the Civil Code under the title "Intangible benefits", to change the sequence of articles
located in it. The construction of Chapter 8 of the Civil Code should be stated as follows:
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"Chapter 8. Intangible benefits. Article 97. Intangible benefits; Article 98. Personal
property rights and their protection; Article 99. Protection of honor, dignity and business
reputation; Article 100. The results of intellectual activity; Article 101. Official and
commercial secret. ".
It is advisable to include in the Code of Administrative Responsibility the article 461
of the following content: Illegal, without the permission of a person, the collection or
dissemination of information about private life, constituting his personal or family secret,
entails a fine in the amount of ten to forty times the minimum wage. ".
In the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, making an apology for the
dissemination of disgracing information should be equivalent. On the basis of these opinions,
it is necessary to amend Part 8 of Article 100 of the Civil Code and, as an alternative
protection mechanism in the form of compensation for damage or non-pecuniary damage, it
is necessary to raise the issue of compensation and apology or conclusion between the parties
to the settlement agreement.
Now, let's focus on the statistics of judicial practice. If we pay attention to the
information on the work done by the civil cases courts in connection with disputes over
personal non-property rights, the number of cases done by the civil courts of Uzbekistan in
2015 increased by 159 814 cases to 192 000 by 2018. And in the civil courts of the Japanese
state in 2015 there were 178 000 cases, by 2018, this figure reached 205 000 cases.
Information on cases considered by civil courts in connection with disputes on
personal non-property rights (Table 1)
Country
Uzbekistan
Japan
2015
159 814
178 000
2016
173 170
185 000
2017
184 093
195 000
2018
192 000
205 000
The decisions for the favor of applicant and rejected decisions made by civil cases
courts in connection with disputes over personal non-property rights are considered in the
percentage rate.
The decisions for the favor of applicant and rejected decisions made by civil
cases courts in connection with disputes over personal non-property rights. (Graph 1)
250000
200000
decisions
150000
decions for the favor of
applicant
100000
rejected decisions
50000
0
2015
2016
2017
2018
Based on a comparative legal analysis of civil law and jurisprudence of Uzbekistan
and Japan, it was concluded that it is necessary to adopt the Resolution of the Plenum of the
Supreme Court "On Some Issues of Applying the Norms of Civil and Family Legislation
Regarding Personal Non-property Rights", and a draft of this resolution was drafted.
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As a conclusion it is necessary to mention that the importance of provision of the
civil-law protection of honor, dignity and business reputation which has caused increase in
the number of lawsuits brought in courts for its protection. It demonstrates that at present
improvement of legal protection of honor, dignity and business reputation is one of the
important modern tasks for scholars.
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