The article analyzes the legal principles and practical aspects of detecting, recording and investigating violations of legislative requirements in the field of public catering, and also determines the role of forensic research in ensuring the objectivity and completeness of the evidence base in proceedings related to violations in the work of public catering establishments.
The article provides a fundamental theoretical, legal, and praxeological analysis of the institute of forensic examination in the context of investigating corruption criminal offenses committed in the financial sector. The relevance of the topic is due to the high level of latency and intellectualization of crime in the banking and financial sectors, which requires pre-trial investigation bodies to apply specific evidentiary tools.
The article examines the possibility of conducting some types of expert examinations in cases of road accidents before the opening of criminal proceedings, discusses the debatable issues related to the violation of the personal interests of the participants at the stage of opening criminal proceedings and the unjustified delay in making a decision to open criminal proceedings or to refuse them.
The article deals with the problematic issues of the use of coercion in the mandatory appointment of forensic experts in criminal proceedings in the context of human rights protection. Forensic examination is one of the means of ensuring the activities of law enforcement agencies and courts in order to obtain evidentiary information. These bodies are endowed with certain powers by the state regarding the possibility of restricting the rights and freedoms of citizens in cases established by criminal procedure law.
The article is devoted to the problem of forensic and procedural analysis of the essence and purposes of the use of forensic examinations during the pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings. In criminal procedural activity, special knowledge is used in two forms: – in the form of involving specialists during certain investigative (search) actions; – in the form of involving an expert in criminal proceedings for examination.
In the article on the basis of the analysis of normative legal acts the peculiarities of
conducting expert research in criminal proceedings are considered. Taking into account the
commonality of the process under expert investigation, which is conducted in a criminal
proceeding on the initiative of the body of pre-trial investigation, it is necessary to understand
the legal expertise.
The article deals with complex judicial examinations, as a method of establishing
evidence. The concept and content of complex forensic examinations which are used in legal
proceedings are found out. The analysis of separate normative acts, which will establish the
legal basis of the organization for conducting complex expert studies, is carried out. The main
forms of complex examination in criminal proceedings are considered
The problems of preparing forensic experts at higher educational establishments of Ukraine are considered in the article. The analysis of legislation of Ukraine in the field of forensic science activity is made and practice of expert specialists in some foreign countries examined.