Article | Ensuring the Right to a Fair Trial in Criminal Proceedings: Specific Issues of Law Enforcement |
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Authors | Solodkov A. |
Name of magazine | Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version) |
Issue | 11 / 2013 |
Pages | 55 - 62 |
Annotation | Specific problematic issues of the application of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine regarding legal regulation of the procedure of ensuring the right to a fair trial in criminal proceedings are analyzed in the article. The components of the normative content of the above mentioned right, as well as the peculiarities of ensuring their implementation by the newest criminal procedure legislation are considered. The procedure of ensuring the right to a fair trial, provided by the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, contains a number of new regulations, implementing both the provisions of Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights. The author draws a conclusion on the need to improve the procedure of ensuring the right to a fair trial regarding the rules for the transfer of criminal proceedings from one court to another, the implementation of the criminal proceedings by a court of jury, the execution of the duties of the Prosecutor to ensure the presence of witnesses for the prosecution during the trial, etc. |
Keywords | right to a fair trial, access to justice, jurisdiction, composition of court, court of jury. |
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