scholarly journals Conducting forensic and genetic examination in civil judiciary as an object of constitutional protection

Author(s):  
V.M. Shkabaro ◽  
A.V. Bila

The article is devoted to the study of forensic genetic examination in civil proceedings as an object of constitutional protection, due to the emergence of the concept of forensic examination in general and forensic genetic examination, entities entitled to conduct forensic examinations, analyzing the legal basis of court - genetic examination in Ukraine. Characteristics of the legal basis for recognition of paternity/mother and establishing the fact of paternity/mother are presented. The admissible and appropriate evidence bases in such cases and the place of forensic genetic examination in in the system of evidence that can be involved in the case have been clarified. The features of this examination have been studied, basis to proceed with the molecular genetic examination, the grounds for conducting a molecular genetic examination have been determined, and the issues raised before the expert carrying out the expert research have been singled out. The analysis of judicial practice of consideration of cases on recognition of paternity/maternity and the establishment of the fact of paternity/maternity which is carried out with carrying out forensic genetic examination was carried out. The article analyzes the problematic issues that arise in the process of legal regulation of forensic genetic examination and the practice of applying legislation in this area. The problems of evasion of a party from participation in forensic genetic examination, namely, non-appearance at a certain time to participate in the examination, failure to provide materials for expert research and the legal consequences of such evasion for all participants in the case. This article offers ways to solve problematic aspects of the research. The conclusions on the application by the courts of the results of forensic genetic examination during the consideration of cases on recognition of paternity/maternity, establishment of the fact of paternity/maternity were generalized and made. Forensic genetic examination is an individual identify. This type of examination allows not only to categorically exclude paternity, but also to carry out the origin of the child from both parents due to blood relationship (identification), as well as the diagnosis of hereditary diseases in the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy. Conducting such an examination is an effective mechanism of constitutional protection, because the facts established as a result of the examination form the basis of the evidence base are considered in conjunction with other evidence available in the case file.

Author(s):  
Iryna Popovych

Modern judicial practice indicates how important, in the quality of cases, is forensic examination, which with its special methods, tools and techniques contributes to the solution of judicial problems. An expert opinion plays a significant role in the process of proving in separate proceedings, when the question of the obligatory application of special knowledge arises. The article deals with study of forensic science as a source of evidence in a particular proceeding, as well as highlighting the clear difference between individual and other types of proceedings in civil proceedings, forming an opinion on the active role of the court in resolving cases in a particular proceeding. on the problem of interpretation by courts of norms of the national legislation at application of such means of proof as the expert’s conclusion. Analysis of scholars’ opinions, national case law, ECtHR documents, current legislation and regu-lations governing the appointment of forensic examination, shows that, in addition to the general rules of the institution of evidence and proof, in cases of separate proceedings, the court may take into account all by law means of proof. The expert's opinion is admissible, sufficient, reliable and categorical evidence in cases concerning changes in the legal status of individuals; establishing facts that are legally significant for the realization of rights and interests in family and other legal relations (for example, establishing the zygote of twins as a result of merging male and female gametes, establishing kinship (kinship) through molecular genetic examination).


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Рита Хусаинова ◽  
Евгения Ахтямова ◽  
Илдар Минниахметов ◽  
Регина Султанова

Currently, the methods of molecular diagnostic technologies are being developed, improved and implemented in clinical practice, ensuring the progress of medicine. The strategy of the new direction - personalized medicine is diseases prevention and treatment based on the results of molecular genetic researches at the earliest stages of disease, however, the use of genetic testing raises a number of ethical, legal and social issues that require legislative regulation. Information obtained as a result of a genetic test allows us to predict future health status and assess the risks of pathological conditions, but can also be used by third parties to discriminate and infringe on human rights, as well as contain unexpected findings, affecting the family and descendants of the examined person. Aim: analysis and synthesis of theoretical knowledge and practical experience of legal regulation of the issues of preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnostics; the use of genomic technologies for DNA typing of hereditary diseases and current trends in the improvement of regulatory legal acts in this field of research. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Private scientific methods are used: legal-dogmatic and the method of interpretation of legal norms. Results: the experience of legal regulation of the genetic research regime both in the countries of the world and in national legislation is studied. It is concluded that the national regulatory framework needs to improve the legal regime of DNA testing. Some ways to resolve regulatory issues of DNA testing are identified.


Author(s):  
Uliana Kuzenko

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an international legal instrument, which for the first time formulated the foundations of modern democratic status of a human being and its fundamental rights and freedoms. Methodology. The methodology involves a comprehensive study of theoretical and practical material on the subject, as well as a formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. During the research, the following methods of scientific cognition were used: dialectical, terminological, formal and logical, systemic and functional. Results. The study found that the main features of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a source of international legal mechanism for the protection of human rights are: 1) it is a fundamental, foundational and universal international human rights act of the United Nations; 2) it establishes a system of fundamental human rights; 3) it defines a common system of fundamental international human rights standards; 4) it determines the principles of legal identity of a human being; 5) it determines the fundamental basis and principles of international legal regulation in the field of human rights protection; 6) it acts as an international legal basis for the adoption of the latest legislation on human rights protection; 7) it acts as an international legal basis for the codification of human rights legislation. Scientific novelty. The study found that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights points to the natural origin of human rights, which must be binding on all States and for the whole population, regardless of citizenship, in order to ensure the human rights protection in a democratic and rule-of-law State. Practical importance. The results of the study can be used to improve Ukrainian legislation on human rights and fundamental freedoms.


2017 ◽  
pp. 132-138
Author(s):  
O.V. Paliychuk ◽  
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L.Z. Polishchuk ◽  
Z.I. Rossokha ◽  
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The objective: determining gene polymorphism features ERS1, CYP2D6 in patients with breast cancer (RHZ) and endometrial cancer (EC) and the impact assessment studied genetic characteristics compared to receptor status (immunohistochemical determination of expression levels of ER, PR) tumors and the results of the treatment. Patients and methods. article presents the results of complex clinical, morphological, clinical-genealogical, and molecular-genetic examination of 28 females: 19 patients with breast cancer (BC), 9 patients with endometrial cancer (EC), including 5 patients with primary-multiple tumors (PMT) with and without tumor pathology aggregation in families. Results. The It was determined that in patients’ families malignant tumors of breast, uterine body and/or ovaries prevail that corresponds to Lynch type II syndrome (family cancer syndrome). Molecular-genetic examination of genomic DNA of peripheral blood and histological sections for the presence of SNPs of ESR and CYP2D6*4 genes comparing with the results of immunohistochemical study of tumors for receptors ER and PR status have not found associations between these characteristics; although among EC patients the occurrence of genotypes 397ТТ and 351АА was significantly higher comparing with BC patients (55.55% and 10.5% for genotype 397ТТ,and 15.8% for genotype 351АА, respectively). At the same time the patients with BC and primary-multiple tumors (PMT) of female reproductive system organs (FRSO) that carried mutations in BRCA1 in all the cases demonstrated positive ER and PR receptor status and adverse combinations of polymorphous variants of the genes ESR1 (397СС, 397ТС) and CYP2D6*4 (1846G, 1846GA), suggesting combined effect of these factors on the development of malignant neoplasias of FRSO in families with positive family cancer history. In BC patients, receiving standard hormone therapy with tamoxifen, those, who had genotype 1846GG of the gene CYP2D6*4, in 3 patients (15.8%) of 19 (100%) patients disease recurrence was diagnosed. Conclusion. The obtained results allow clinical use of the assessment of polymorphism frequency of the genes ESR1 and CYP2D6*4 for selection of individual hormone therapy regimens schemes for BC patients, to increase efficacy of dispensary observation after finishing of special therapy for such patients, and also personalization of complex and combined treatment regimens. Key words: breast cancer, endometrial cancer, family cancer syndrome, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the genes ESR1, CYP2D6*4.


Author(s):  
Anna Koval ◽  

he end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twentyfirst century has begun the rapid development of scientific researches in the biological and medical fields. This process is associated with using of fundamentally new methods, which are primarily aimed at the disease prevention, as well as the introduction into the treatment of human diseases with the latest scientific and innovative technologies, methods and techniques of their application. These opportunities in the development of scientific technologies in the field of biology and medicine have led to the emergence of such a direction of scientific activity as "biotechnology". The proposed article notes that using of biomedical technologies has caused a number of new problems in the field of law and ethics. Legal arrangement in the field of the health protection have become much more complicated. Thanks to new opportunities, today these relations regulate rights and responsibilities of a fairly large number of people. Modern relations in the field of medical services and medical care lead to the emergence of new approaches to their regulation by both legal and ethical norms. In the past, relations in the field of the health protection were usually between two subjects, a doctor and a healthcare consumer. Nowadays, in a medical practice, relations in the field of the health protection involve: a health-care consumer, his family members (e.g., in the case of hereditary diseases diagnosis, blood and organ donation etc.) and third parties (e.g., organ donation, reproductive cell donation, surrogacy etc.). In the general doctrinal concept, biotechnology is the industrial use of living organisms or their parts (microorganisms, fungi, algae, plant and animal cells, cellular organs, enzymes etc.) for product producing or modifying, improving plants and animals, and in medical practice - in relation of the individual human organs (or body as a whole) functioning. These circumstances require improving the legal regulation of modern medicine public relations, bringing them into line with emerging realities. Moreover, the specifics of relations in this field determines the specifics of their legal regulation. The application of new medical technologiesin relation to human treatment has given rise to a significant number of moral and ethical problems that could not be solved within the framework of medical ethics and deontology alone. In connection with this, the way out of the current situation could be the consolidation of bioethics as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge, as a science, which makes it possible to explain moral, ethical and legal aspects of the medicine. This, for example, determines the allocation of medical law in an independent branch of law in some Western countries and Ukraine. The article focuses on biomedical ethics, which is a component of the medical activities system regulation. In the context of considering the levels of social regulation of medical activities, bioethics (biomedical ethics) is an interdisciplinary science that studies moral and ethical, social and legal problems of medical activities in the context of human rights protection. Bioethics should create a set of moral principles, norms and rules that are binding on all mankind and delineate the limits of scientific interference in the nature of the human body, the transition through which is unacceptable.


Author(s):  
Anton Koshelev ◽  
Ekaterina Rusakova

A significant leap in the development of information technology over the past twenty years has made the global legal community respond to new challenges that have come along with the progress in the digital environment. Together with the convenience of using electronic resources, society has developed a need for a simple and understandable legislative regulation of legal relations arising from the use of computer information technologies and various products of electronic digital activity in order to protect their interests potentially. The concept and types of electronic evidence in civil proceedings in different countries have different meanings. Meanwhile, the regulations of their procedural admissibility and applicability differ. The common thing is the tendency towards an increase in the use of electronic information carriers in court proceedings, increasing importance for establishing specific facts, and the decisive evidentiary role in making decisions by the court. India became one of the first countries to realize the growing level of implementation of Internet technologies, electronic digital storage media, and computer dominance in society and the state's daily life [1] (Artemyeva, Y.A. et al.). The consequence of this understanding was the timely development and implementation of the substantive and procedural bases in evidence law for practical, understandable, and convenient use of electronic evidence in civil proceedings. The article examines the types and procedural status of electronic evidence and analyzes the current legislation and law enforcement practice in the admissibility and application of electronic evidence in civil proceedings in India. The study identifies the existing system of electronic evidence in the legal field of India, the determination of the advantages and disadvantages in the gathering, presentation, research, and evaluation of electronic evidence by the court in civil proceedings, as well as the identification of the procedural order for their provision. The researchers have identified the following tasks to achieve the goals: • to define and research the legislation of India governing the concept, types and procedural order of applicability and admissibility of electronic evidence in civil proceedings in India; • to develop a particular procedural order for the effective use of the institution of electronic evidence in civil litigation in India; • to identify the current trends in the gathering, presentation, research, and evaluation of electronic evidence in India's courts, based on the established judicial practice study. The research methodology is based on general theoretical and scientific methods of cognition, including abstraction and specification, analysis and synthesis, modeling and comparison, and systemic, logical, and functional analyzes. The scientific novelty of the research consists of a comprehensive study of the instruments of legal regulation of the institution of electronic evidence in India's legal field, including regulatory legal acts and judicial precedents, and a consideration of the possibility of applying Indian approaches in the jurisdictions of other countries. The analysis of legislation and jurisprudence regarding electronic evidence in India's civil proceedings was carried out using the synergistic principle of object study, statistical-sequential analysis, and empirical research method. This study's results can be used in lawmaking to develop and improve regulations regarding the procedural status and use of electronic evidence in civil litigation in any country. The reference, citation, and use of this article's conclusions and materials are permissible when conducting lectures and seminars on civil procedure and private international law, research activities, law enforcement practice, and teaching.


2021 ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Antonina G. Baykova ◽  
Marina Yuryevna Vostroknutova ◽  
Natalia A. Ostryakova ◽  
Tatyana Mikhailovna Kiryushina

The aim of the study was to conduct a comparative analysis of spirometric indicators of respiration in various phenotypes of occupational bronchial asthma. Materials and methods. At the clinical stage of the work, a comprehensive clinical, radiological, spirographic, echocardiographic, immunological and molecular genetic examination of 170 patients of the main groups and 50 individuals of the control group was carried out. The results of the study. Dynamic determination of the speed indicators of forced exhalation in various phenotypes of occupational bronchial asthma can improve the diagnosis of obstructive disorders in this pathology, optimize the choice of treatment tactics, and predict the course of this pathology.


Author(s):  
A. I. Antonov

The publication is devoted to legal issues and prospects of banning weapons in outer space. The international legal basis currently existing in this field governs only certain aspects of use of outer space for military purposes, and it is obviously not enough to prevent the emergence of weapons in outer space. Attempts on the international level in recent years to put legal provisions in place that would establish barriers to an arms race in outer space so far have not been successful. The time is ripe to implement initiatives contributing to the institutionalization of verification activities on non-weaponization of outer space


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Strygina

The article analyses the legal basis of activities of cleaning up the world oceans. It is emphasized that they are complex. The role of the UN in solving environmental problems is also highlighted. The need for international cooperation in the protection of the marine environment is mentioned. The article raises the problem of improving both international and national legislation and eliminating gaps in the law. The importance of social responsibility of business is emphasized.


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