The article highlights the problem of legislative and practical support for the functioning of the criminal justice system in Ukraine, especially in the context of modern challenges, such as martial law and social transformations. The study of combating criminally unlawful abuse of the rights of individual participants in criminal proceedings as an effective means of preventing the commission of criminal offenses in relation to other participants in these criminal proceedings is relevant. The author proves that criminally unlawful crimes, which can be committed primarily by persons vested with power, pose a significant threat to justice and the achievement of its objectives.
The author's article substantiates the need for a deep understanding of the criminological and criminal law nature of possible abuses by individual participants in criminal proceedings in order to develop effective mechanisms for counteracting the commission of criminal offenses in the field of justice. Thus, the author, based on the study of foreign experience, in particular, the experience of England and Wales, analyzes the issue of due legal procedure as one of the fundamental guarantees of maintaining the rights of participants in its relationship with the principle of the rule of law to ensure a fair consideration of criminal proceedings on the basis of equality of parties and respect for fundamental human rights.
The article, based on domestic judicial practice, specifies the problem of abuse of procedural rights, which can contribute to the commission of criminal offenses against participants in criminal proceedings. Thus, a certain legal uncertainty of "abuse of law", in particular, in the professional activities of individual participants in criminal proceedings, creates difficulties for the legal qualification of such actions, especially with signs of criminally unlawful. The author examines various forms of unlawful abuse, in particular, both abuse of procedural rights (e.g. to delay the process), and abuse of authority of the subject conducting the criminal process, with signs of criminally unlawful acts committed by him.
The conclusion is made about the need to develop a reliable system of counteraction to criminal legal proceedings of individual (endowed with powers to conduct the process) participants in criminal proceedings, who, by their unlawful actions, may encroach on the rights and legitimate interests of participants involved in the criminal proceedings. Based on the researched positive foreign experience, the author points out the expediency of improving legislation on liability for criminal offenses, as well as improving the means of countering criminal offenses in criminal proceedings, in particular, by increasing the efficiency of judicial control, by restoring the institution of a separate resolution, etc.
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