| Article | Public Prosecutor in Criminal Process: on Functions Determining |
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| Authors | Pogoretskyi M. |
| Name of magazine | Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version) |
| Issue | 6 / 2015 |
| Pages | 86 - 95 |
| Annotation | Given the analysis of scientific sources, as well as provisions of national and international criminal procedural law, concept, essence and types of functions of a public prosecutor in criminal process are studied. The author defines term «criminal procedural functions» which encompasses a range of powers vested in the court and the parties of criminal proceedings. The public prosecutor in the criminal process performs a single function – the function of prosecution, aimed at determining the criminal offense, exposing a person committed the criminal offense (her identification, notifying of suspicion), drawing up the bill of indictment, indictment, keeping it in court, taking measures of securing criminal proceedings. The function of prosecution implies the activities of the prosecution beginning with criminal offense recording in the Unified register of pre-trial investigations. It encompasses criminal offense determining, exposing a person committed a criminal offense (her identification, notification on suspicion), drawing up the bill of indictment, indictment, backing it in court, taking measures of securing criminal proceedings. |
| Keywords | public prosecutor, functions, prosecution, criminal proceedings, pre-trial investigation. |
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