scholarly journals THE PROBLEMS OF THE REFORM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Tertyshnyk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right

The article covers the problem of optimization of regulatory and criminal proceedings in terms of the implementation of the principle of the adversarial parties. Analysis of the positive stories and shortcomings of the current CPC of Ukraine. Disclosed the problem to run the investigation and legal assistance and protection. The submitted proposals concerning improvement of the norms of the criminal procedure law. The principle of admissibility of intervention in human rights and the application of coercive measures in establishing the objective truths only in case of extreme urgency has become a basic principle of the criminal process. According to the applicable law of Ukraine “on advocacy and its activities” (p. 7 article 20) advocate in their activities has the right to “remove things, documents, copy them”. That is, it can only go about getting published, and not about “deleting”, without the consent of the holder of the document or thing. “Extract” is commonly understood as forced extraction, and side protection, by definition, its function may not to have establishing the authority. Finally, to protect enough of getting copies of documents, not delete documents, especially the absence of a duty to Act laid them in the proper way to store and share the Court. At first glance, insignificant legislative inaccuracy may only have character problem definitions, but in reality these “trivia” smear Vaseline give opportunity not so much for a parallel legal investigation, how, in practice, for the active counteraction to the inquest by hiding or destroying evidence. In today’s criminal counsel may participate in criminal proceedings in three different status: 1) as a defender of the suspect, accused, convicted, justified; 2) as a representative of the victim of physical persons; a legal entity that is affected civil plaintiff, civil respondent; third person; 3) as legal assistant to the witness. Prescription of the Constitution that exceptionally lawyer carries out representation of another person in court, as well as protection from criminal prosecution does not mean establishing the monopoly of lawyers to perform the function of protection. Wise will introduce a new conceptual system of legal assistance and protection: 1. Protection of the suspect can make as lawyers and other professionals in the field of law, for which there is no reason for removal. 2. Defendant and defendant in court should carry only a lawyer who offered to appoint judicial agent. 3. Legal assistance to victims, civil plaintiffs, civil and for third parties (art. 63 of the CPC of Ukraine) can make as lawyers and other specialists in the field of law, which can act in the procedural status of the representatives of the respective parties. 4. Legal assistance to witnesses, applicants to other participants of the process can make as lawyers and other professionals in the field of law. Implementation of the constitutional principles of legal assistance and protection in criminal proceedings requires a clear definition of the procedural status of the Defender, therepresentative and law agent, development and adoption of the law on the independent Institute the investigation, which has become an independent institution of the criminal procedural law.

scholarly journals The right to receive qualified legal assistance in criminal proceedings: The concept, the relationship with the right to defense

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-205
Author(s):  
Galina I. Sedova ◽  
◽  
Vasilina Yu. Gromak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Standards ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive

Introduction. An important achievement of modern criminal procedure legislation and law enforcement practice is the implementation of international standards and democratic legal institutions concerning the strengthening of guarantees of respect for the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings. Among them is the right of a person to receive qualified legal assistance. In this regard, it becomes important to analyse the system of scientific views and studies on the issue of qualified legal assistance and its relationship with the right to protection determined by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and to determine the main characteristics to which such assistance should correspond. Theoretical analysis. The mechanism of procedural support of the right of a person against whom criminal prosecution is being carried out to receive qualified legal assistance is identified, and proposals are formulated to improve the legal guarantees of ensuring legal activity in its implementation. Empirical analysis. A definition of the right to qualified legal assistance has been developed, which represents the rights of a suspect, accused, or victim to use the help of a lawyer with legal education, who is part of the professional legal community, with a confirmed status, in order to ensure the implementation of the purpose of criminal proceedings – in terms of protecting the rights of victims of crimes – and all components of the right to protection from criminal prosecution and prosecution, which are enshrined in the current legislation at all stages of criminal proceedings. Results. The authors carried out a study on scientific representations of the right to qualified legal aid and the distinction between the right to protection and the right to qualified legal aid.

CONCEPT AND CONTENT OF A RECONCILIATION AGREEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS OF UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariia Sirotkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The article is turned out to a scientific search for the concept of "a reconciliation agreement between the victim and the suspect or accused" through the study of the essence of reconciliation and role in criminal proceedings thereof. The author notes that criminal procedural law (until 2012) had been proclaimed another approach to reconciliation between victim and suspect, not involved a dispute procedure as a conflict, the result of which can be reached by compromise and understanding through reconciliation. It is stated that one of the ways to resolve the legal conflict in committing a criminal offense was the opportunity to reach a compromise between the victim and the suspect (the accused) by concluding a reconciliation agreement between them, provided by the Code of Сriminal Procedure of Ukraine (2012). The main attention is placed on the shortcoming of the domestic criminal procedure law which is the lack of the concept of "a reconciliation agreement between the victim and the suspect or the accused", which can be eliminated only through examining the essence or legal nature of reconciliation in criminal proceedings. Taking into consideration the current legislation and modern views on the institution of reconciliation in criminal proceedings, the author's definition of the concept of "a reconciliation agreement" is proposed. Thus, “The conciliation agreement is an agreement in criminal proceedings concluded between the victim and the suspect or the accused person on their own initiative in relation to crimes of minor or medium gravity and in criminal proceedings in the form of private prosecution, the subject of which is the compensation of harm caused by wrongdoing or committing other actions not related to compensation for the damage that the suspect or the accused is obliged to commit in favor of the victim, in exchange for an agreed punishment and sentencing thereof or sentencing thereof and relief from serving a sentence with probation, as well as the statutory consequences of conclusion and approval of the agreement".

Institute of bringing as an accused: on the “deprocessualization” and “dematerialization” of its essence and content in the criminal proceedings of Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Nikolay N. Kovtun
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Optimal Mechanism ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Legal Fiction ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law

This work critically assesses the legal nature and practice of the institution of bringing as a defendant in criminal proceedings in Russia, particularly in its relation to the substantive legal act of bringing to criminal responsibility. The author argues that, due to the general bureaucratization of the process, both the first and second acts have actually lost their original purpose to be the determining material and procedural guarantee of individual and justice in criminal proceedings. Objectifying as a legal fiction, the act of bringing the accused as an accused in the doctrine of Russian criminal procedure law, done directly in practice, is increasingly characterized as an accusation of duty, initial, intermediate, and final, which respectively form the ideas of duty, intermediate, initial, and investigative-final criminal prosecution. This negates the role of the named defining acts. Hence, the paper suggests an optimal mechanism for their implementation according to the purposes and tasks of substantive and procedural law

scholarly journals The criminal responsibility for defamation of knowingly innocent

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Vira Navrotska ◽  
Oksana Bronevytska ◽  
Galyna Yaremko ◽  
Roman Maksymovych ◽  
Vita Matolych
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Innocent Person ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
The Right

The scientific article analyzes the acute discussion in law enforcement practice and procedural science of the problem of the possibility of criminal prosecution of a suspect, accused of defaming a knowingly innocent person in the commission of a crime. The theoretical basis of the article are scientific works on criminal law and criminal procedural law (both domestic researchers and foreign experts). A set of general scientific, special scientific and philosophical methods of scientific knowledge has been used while preparing the scientific article, in particular dialectical, historical, comparative, dogmatic (formal-logical), system-structural analysis, modeling. It is substantiated in the article that the behavior of the suspect, accused, which is manifested in slandering of a knowingly innocent person, does not constitute the right to freedom from self-disclosure. It is also proved that both freedom from self-disclosure and the right to defense in criminal proceedings must have certain limits, in particular, it is rights and interests of other subjects protected by criminal law. We stated that the suspect or accused should be liable for misleading the court and pre-trial investigation bodies even if such deception was used to protect against the suspicion (or accusation), to avoid criminal liability.

scholarly journals Improvement of the Procedure of Application of Compulsory Measures of Educational Impact

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
K. A. Tabolina ◽  
Z. R. Dzheyranova
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Minor

The article is devoted to the problem of improvement of the procedure of application of compulsory educational measures in criminal proceedings against minors. The lack of proper regulation of the procedure for the application of compulsory educational measures and the existing legislative gaps determine the need for amendments and additions to the criminal law and criminal procedure law. It is proposed to grant the right to resolve the issue of termination of criminal prosecution and initiation of a petition for the application of a coercive measure of educational impact before the court to the prosecutor dealing with the criminal case brought before him with conviction or indictment. In order to resolve the question of the possibility of rehabilitating a minor through the use of compulsory educational measures, it is necessary to study his psyche using the specialized knowledge, which presupposes an expert opinion in the case. Exemption from criminal liability of minors under the rules of Article 90 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation should be treated as the duty rather than the right of the law enforcement agent. Approaches to the solution of the problem connected with execution of compulsory measures of educational impact have been formulated.

scholarly journals TYPES OF DISPOSITION OF CRIMINAL JUDICIARY OF UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4(106)) ◽  
pp. 215-221
Author(s):  
М. М. Почтовий
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Article ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
General Group ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Order

The scientific article considers the issue of modern understanding of the essence of the principle of dispositiveness in the criminal proceedings of Ukraine, as well as its classification in scientific sources. At the beginning, the author emphasizes the importance of the existence of the principle of dispositiveness in criminal proceedings and its impact on the implementation of the rights and freedoms of participants in criminal proceedings. On the basis of the defined criteria the classification of dispositiveness in criminal proceedings is carried out: 1) on the maintenance - social, material and formal (procedural); 2) according to the methods of connection of elements in the structure of dispositiveness - horizontal (equal-order) and vertical (different-order); 3) by enshrining dispositive norms in the substantive or procedural law - substantive and procedural; 4) on the generality of powers used by the subjects of dispositive rights - general, group and exclusive powers (the right to the last word of the defendant); 5) on the subordination of rights and freedoms (legal provisions) of the subjects of dispositiveness - the main provisions, provisions that ensure the implementation of the basic; 6) depending on the scope of powers granted to participants in criminal proceedings, for a certain period of time - static and dynamic; 7) depending on how many participants in the criminal proceedings are endowed with dispositiveness in a particular criminal proceeding - unilateral and bilateral; 8) depending on the mechanism of realization of dispositive rights - constitutive and situational; 9) for the subject of dispositive rights - suspect, defense counsel, accused, legal representatives, victim, civil plaintiff, civil defendant, witnesses, etc. The author of the study formulates the definition of dispositiveness in the criminal proceedings of Ukraine - it is a conscious need for active and purposeful activities of entities endowed with dispositive rights, the implementation of which affects the emergence, change or termination of criminal procedural relations and aims to defend their own or representative interests.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF EFFICIENCY OF DETENTION OF A PERSON IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Myroslav Pototskyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Support ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The article focuses on the study of the concept of the effectiveness of detention of a person in criminal proceedings. It is emphasized that criminal procedural detention is an important tool of the criminal procedural activity of the prosecution. Not enough attention has been paid to the definition of the effectiveness of criminal procedural detention in the scientific literature. When posing the problem statement, it is noted that the study of the concept of the effectiveness of detention is the starting point in the study of ways to improve the effectiveness of such coercive measures. The relevance of the study of the concept of the effectiveness of criminal procedural detention is also enhanced by the fact that achieving a clear understanding of the effectiveness of detention can serve as a reliable basis for developing and improving the effectiveness of criminal procedural detention. The effectiveness of criminal procedural detention takes into account the balance of interests of the state and the individual, the balance of legal capabilities of law enforcement agencies and effective mechanisms for protection against arbitrariness. There are three signs of the effectiveness of criminal procedural detention: prompt achievement of the goal; legality on the basis of a qualitative law; short-term restriction of the right to liberty. During the presentation of the main material the procedural characteristic of each of them is given. We do not consider the selected criteria of efficiency of criminal procedural detention to be exclusive. The effectiveness of any criminal procedure institution is not a static phenomenon. It is dynamic and depends on the specific circumstances of the criminal proceedings. Based on the study of the above features, the concept of the effectiveness of criminal procedural detention is formulated. The effectiveness of criminal procedural detention is the ability to detain in a legal manner, regulated by a quality criminal procedural law, by short-term restriction of the right to freedom to promptly achieve the goal of ensuring proper conduct of the suspect and the information support of the initial stage of pre-trial criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals Legacy of M. S. Strogovich and Modern Problems of Functional-Legal Construction of Criminal Pre-Trial Proceedings

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-513
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Derishev
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Criminal Process ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
125Th Anniversary ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
Definition Of

In November 2019, the world legal community widely celebrated the 125th anniversary of Professor M. S. Strogovich, who, according to his scientific colleagues and students, was a scientist who was “ahead of time”.This article provides a retrospective and comparative analysis of the positions of M. S. Strogovich and his colleagues on certain problems of domestic criminal proceedings, in particular its pre-trial phase, in the context of the direct influence of the scientist's scientific heritage on the development of modern criminal procedure law. The Author of the article particularly interesting views of the scientist and his participation in discussions related to defining the essence and purpose of the preliminary investigation, the implementation of the functions of preliminary investigation in relation to criminal prosecution, the problems of implementation of the principles of presumption of innocence and the adversarial nature of pre-trial proceedings in criminal cases, and, finally, the General Manager of the “investigative case” in modern Russia.M. S. Strogovich consistently adhered to the idea of the need to develop and strengthen procedural guarantees of individual rights, guarantees of justice, and this can be seen in this article. Thus, defining the essence of the criminal process as a system of actions of the relevant officials and the procedural legal relations that arise in connection with them, which in itself was a serious “scientific courage” of those years, M. S. Strogovich particularly defended the position that all participants in criminal proceedings are subjects of the rights granted to them and the duties assigned to them, and they should not be considered objects of unilateral power of officials. This idea has become widespread and generally accepted as the basic definition of domestic (Soviet and Russian) criminal proceedings.The article analyzes M. S. Strogovich’s scientific steps on the conceptual turn from revolutionary-radical ideas about the construction of criminal proceedings to its classical canons and traditions of the Russian criminal process, On the basis of which the conclusion is made about the indispensable use of the scientist's legacy in modernьRussian procedural studies.The research of M. S. Strogovich’s legacy carried out in the article will fully allow to rethink the modern system of criminal proceedings in a new way, can be used as a kind of key to finding solutions to law-making and law enforcement problems, for the further development of the national science of criminal procedure law.

scholarly journals Public Prosecution in the System of Criminal Procedural Functions

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-193
Author(s):  
V. N. Isaenko
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Definition Of

The paper discusses the concept and types of criminal procedural functions, analyzes the points of view of legal scholars who at various times formulated the corresponding definition. According to the author, the semantic content set by the legislator is set forth in Art. 5 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation is an important contribution to the improvement of the conceptual apparatus of criminal procedural law; it is intended to ensure uniformity of interpretation of the concepts they designate and, consequently, uniformity of action of the relevant criminal procedure institutions. At the same time, the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation has no definition of the concept of criminal procedure function. Based on the analysis of the norms of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation and the opinions of jurists who expressed opinions on the concept of the criminal procedure function, it is proposed to include an additional clause in Art. 5 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation that would contain this concept in the proposed edition of the author. It is also proposed to divide the criminal procedural functions into two groups in connection with their performance by the participants of the criminal process both at the pre-trial and at the trial stages. The opinion is expressed on the independent nature of the function of assisting criminal proceedings carried out by its other participants, referred to in Ch. 8 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation. The content of the function of supporting public prosecution as a form and stage of criminal prosecution and its place in the system of other criminal procedure functions are analyzed. The author proposes a definition of the concept of public prosecution, which is considered as a necessary element and at the same time as a special form of the function of the prosecution in criminal proceedings. This activity differs significantly in terms of tasks, subject and conditions of execution from the accusatory activities of the investigating officer, investigator, body of inquiry in pre-trial proceedings.

NEWLY DISCLOSED CIRCUMSTANCES – GROUNDS FOR RENEWAL OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDING

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (82) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Inese Baikovska
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Proceeding ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Force

It is presumed that no appeal may lie from a judgment that has already entered into legal force and such a judgment is regarded as final in a case, criminal proceedings may still be reopened under certain legal circumstances, which are called newly discovered. This is how the right of persons involved in criminal proceedings to a fair trial and a fair final judgment is ensured.The goal of this article is to examine circumstances that can be recognised as newly discovered and serve as grounds for the reopening of criminal proceedings, identify problems related to legal framework and find a legally sound solution. The tasks of this article are to investigate provisions applied to newly discovered circumstances as defined by the Criminal Procedure Law. As a result of the research, the author has concluded that the Latvian legislation governing criminal procedure with respect to the definition of newly discovered circumstances is deficient; therefore, suggestions are provided for the improvement of the existing legal framework. The research is based on the analysis of legislation, judgments of courts, conclusions and separate opinions of judges.

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