witness

The article is devoted to the problem of preventing criminal offenses against a witness as a participant in criminal proceedings in the context of ensuring his safety in criminal proceedings, thus, based on the study of the experience of certain foreign countries in solving a larger problem in criminal proceedings, it was established that the key feature of the procedural status of a witness, which distinguishes him from other participants in criminal proceedings, in particular the victim, suspect, accused, there is a statutory obligation to provide independent, impartial testimony

The article is devoted to the problem of protection and security of a witness in criminal proceedings, as well as the study of the experience of some foreign countries in solving this problem in criminal proceedings. In particular, to determine the essence of a witness as a subject of criminal proceedings and as a carrier of evidence in criminal proceedings, a theoretical analysis of the scientific positions of individual scholars in relation to the purpose and grounds of protection and security of witnesses, and analyzes the current criminal procedure legislation in Ukraine.

Тhe article explores the main provisions of the civil procedural legislation regarding the legal regulation of the institute of other participants in the trial. The author emphasized the relevance of the research topic in the context of reforming the judicial system as a whole and the civil process in particular. Other litigants in civil proceedings form a separate group of civil procedural entities.