scholarly journals General Requirements for Secret Investigative (Search) Actions: Procedural Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-223
Author(s):  
Я. Ю. Конюшенко
Keyword(s):  
Appellate Court ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
General Requirement ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
The Third ◽  
Territorial Jurisdiction ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Right ◽  
Comprehensive Study

A comprehensive study of the provisions of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine, which regulate the general requirements for secret investigative (search) actions, has been carried out. A comparative analysis of the legislative provisions on the issue has been carried out, which made it possible to distinguish seven groups of general requirements for the implementation of secret investigative (search) actions. The first general requirement of secret investigative (search) actions includes restrictions on their use in criminal proceedings, as they are carried out only in cases where information about the criminal offense and the person who committed it, cannot be obtained in any other way. The second general requirement for conducting secret investigative (search) actions includes restrictions on their use in criminal proceedings, in particular the fact that they are conducted exclusively in criminal proceedings for grave or especially grave offenses. The third general requirement for conducting secret investigative (search) actions is that the legal basis for their implementation is a lawful, reasoned and motivated decision of the investigating judge, issued at the request of the prosecutor or investigator, agreed with the prosecutor. The fourth general requirement for conducting secret investigative (search) actions is that the investigating judge of the appellate court has the right to make the decision to implement them, where the pre-trial investigation agency is within the territorial jurisdiction of that judge. The fifth general requirement includes rules concerning the content of the application for a permit to conduct secret investigative (search) action, the procedure for its consideration by the investigating judge and the content of the decision of the investigating judge. The sixth general requirement for conducting secret investigative (search) actions includes rules that set deadlines for their implementation. The seventh general requirement for conducting secret investigative (search) action includes the rule that the investigator, the interrogator conducting the pre-trial investigation, or, on his behalf or on behalf of the prosecutor, authorized operative units have the right to conduct secret investigative (search) actions.

scholarly journals INVOLVEMENT OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THE INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES DURING THE DETECTION OF CERTAIN TYPES OF CRIMES

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1213-1218
Author(s):  
Alexander M. Bidei ◽  
Oleksandr I. Kozachenko ◽  
Mykola O. Gelemei
Keyword(s):  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
The Right

The aim: To clarify the importance of the need to involve medical professionals, as experts, in the conduction of the investigative actions during the pre-trial investigation of certain types of crimes. Materials and methods: This research is based on the general laws and categories of the Cognition theory and on the framework of materialistic dialectics; it uses a comprehensive approach to the study of the problems under consideration, applies systematic, statistical, historical, legal and comparative legal methods. Conclusions: The need to use specialized medical knowledge depends not on a certain type of crime, but on the specific circumstances of the committed criminal offense. Based on theoretical and practical frameworks, the reasonable practical significance of using specialized medical knowledge during a pre-trial investigation expands and deepens the possibilities of procedural evidence, contributes to the rapid and complete crime disclosure, exposing the wrongdoers and making the right decisions in criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals Protection of privacy related to criminal procedure

2016 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Milana Pisaric
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
The Right

Every person has the right to privacy and protection of personal data and these rights may be restricted only in order to protect the general interest or the preservation of important values in society. If there is a certain degree of suspicion that a person committed a criminal offense, the competent authorities are authorized to limit his/her privacy rights and to collect and process personal data for the purposes of criminal proceedings, by taking certain actions and measures in accordance with the law. On the basis of legal authorization certain subjects may take regular and special evidentiary actions and measures, but possible privacy infringement and data collection should be limited to the extent necessary to suppress a specific criminal offense in accordance with the principle of proportionality. It is necessary and useful to apply the methods and techniques of information technology in order to detect and prove criminal offenses. However, uncritical regulation and voluntary application of advanced methods and techniques of surveillance and monitoring of user?s activities (whose daily activities increasingly rely on information technology) would create a real risk of expanding and deepening the scope of spheres of life to be monitored to a much greater extent than legitimate monitoring within the concept of pro?activity and creation of a complete and panoptic surveillance of personal data. This could not be justified by the needs to oppose even the most severe forms of criminal offenses. Thus, actions and measures based on the use of these techniques and methods should be laid down and applied in accordance with the principles of specificity, necessity and proportionality, and with control of the judicial authorities, so the right to privacy would not be jeopardized. It is necessary to find a proper balance between the needs of criminal proceedings and respect for human rights, with regard to regulating powers of investigative bodies in collecting data of individuals. In online environment, the protection of the right to legal personality and the right to free development of personality through the right to privacy as well as the protection of personal data are necessary to be provided by legal regulations containing even stricter and more precise rules (comparing to offline environment) that determine the scope of powers of the authorities to collect evidence for the purposes of criminal proceedings, because certain actions or measures can greatly interfere with the private sphere of individuals in the direction of a complete privacy annulment.

scholarly journals State responsibility for damage caused by unfair sentence or unfounded arrest

2013 ◽  
pp. 653-665
Author(s):  
Natasa Mrvic-Petrovic ◽  
Zdravko Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

The legal basis of state responsibility for damage caused by unfair sentence or unfounded arrest is the need to protect fundamental human rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and generally accepted international rules. The right to compensation on this basis (although subjective civil right) has a sui generis legal nature, because it is connected with the protection of human rights. Joint public-private legal nature of such a request is expressed in the legislation of the Republic of Serbia, because the circle of authorized persons and the conditions under which they may be entitled to compensation is determined by the criminal procedural rules, while the existence of a legally recognized forms of damage and the extent to which the damage may be reimbursed is estimated according to the general rules of Law of obligations. While the legislation is very progressive, it is observed that, in practice, the applications for compensation are usually submitted because of the most unreasonable detention of up to one month or three months, and the inefficiency of the criminal proceedings, suspended upon the expiration of the absolute limitation of prosecution. The state could easily affect these practices. Also, the priority of state must be meeting its financial obligations with regard to final adjustments, and the imposition of demands for compensation.

scholarly journals The right to information in criminal proceedings in the context of international legal standards.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-271
Author(s):  
Oksana Pchelina
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
Procedural Rights ◽  
Material Evidence

It has been noted that such activities are a sphere of public life, which is inextricably linked with the need and possibility of coercion, which clearly indicates the restriction of certain human rights and freedoms to ensure the effectiveness of pre-trial investigation and trial. The provisions of international legal acts proclaiming and ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms in criminal proceedings have been analyzed. It has been emphasized that in the specified international legal acts there is no interpretation of the right to information, and also it is not considered as the separate right. The essence of the right to information and its place in the system of human rights and freedoms has been determined. The author’s understanding of the concept of the right to information in criminal proceedings has been offered, its content has been revealed and its compliance with international standards of human rights and freedoms has been clarified. The right to information in criminal proceedings has been defined as the possibility and procedure for obtaining, using, disseminating, storing and protecting information provided by the criminal procedure legislation of Ukraine, which determines the principles of criminal proceedings and ensures the solution of its tasks. It has been emphasized that the right to information in criminal proceedings in the context of international legal standards is multifaceted in nature, which allows us to consider it in several aspects, namely as: the basis of criminal proceedings; providing information on procedural rights; informing the person about his / her detention, suspicion / accusation of committing a criminal offense; gaining access to information on material evidence; a ban on the disclosure of information obtained during the pre-trial investigation and court proceedings, and its use not to solve the problems of criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals Implementation of the normative content of the principle of ensuring the right to liberty and security of person in the course of criminal procedural evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 235-239
Author(s):  
T.M. Miroshnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
The Body ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
House Arrest ◽  
The Law ◽  
Precautionary Measures ◽  
The Right ◽  
Normative Content

Consolidation at the level of the Constitution of Ukraine of the principle of ensuring the right to liberty and security of person necessitated the study of its essence and normative content in order to assess the correctness of the legislative approach to formulating the principle at the level of sectoral regulations. The normative content of the principle is enshrined in Art. 12 of the CCP. Analysis of the wording of this article allows us to identify three components of the principle, which reflect its requirements: prohibition, protection, security. The first element of the principle is the provisions of Part 1 of Art. 12 of the CCP. The key concepts that substantively fill this element are the following: restriction of freedom in criminal proceedings is possible only by a reasoned court decision; the reason for such a restriction is the suspicion of committing a criminal offense; restriction of liberty occurs in the manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code. Procedures for restricting the right to liberty are corrected due to the importance of the restricted right. Judicial review proceedings on the prosecution's request to choose precautionary measures restricting liberty are characterized by its active position in proving the circumstances, which is the basis for restricting a person's liberty. The investigating judge, in the presence of a duly motivated and substantiated request, takes an active position solely to verify the information that is the basis of the request. The content of the element of protection consists of the provisions of the law on: the need to bring the detainee to the investigating judge as soon as possible and to check the legality and validity of the restriction of liberty; notification of the detention of the person of her relatives. The third element of the normative content of the principle is formulated in Part 5 of Art. 12 of the CCP. The law provides for criminal liability for knowingly illegal detention, pretext, house arrest or detention (Article 371 of the CPC), as well as the possibility of compensation for damage caused by illegal decisions, actions or omissions of the body carrying out investigative activities, pre-trial investigation, prosecution or court (Article 130 of the CPC).

scholarly journals Appropriate subject of obtaining evidence of a criminal offense in the opinion of the court

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 224-228
Author(s):  
A.-M.Y. Anheleniuk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Evidence Collection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Operational Unit

The article considers the collection of evidence by the prosecution, because it is in this order that the evidence base of criminal proceedings is most often formed. Thus, the prosecutor, investigator (investigator) acting under Articles 36, 40, 401 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, as well as an employee of the operational unit pursuant to Article 41 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine on behalf of the investigator or prosecutor have the right to collect evidence. The purpose of the article is to study the affiliation of the subjects of evidence collection as part of the procedural form of the criminal process of Ukraine, taking into account the analysis of court decisions, namely the assessment of the evidence base as a basis for deciding on the merits of criminal proceedings. Cases of involvement of an improper subject in the pre-trial investigation, which are common and typical, are systematized. There are two types of improper subjects within the investigative (search) or procedural actions, namely the subject: 1) is not appointed in the manner prescribed by law, although according to current legislation according to the list of its powers may be appropriate; 2) does not have the authority under the law to make a specific decision or to conduct investigative (search) or procedural actions. An analysis of court decisions according to which courts provide an assessment of the procedural activities of the subjects of evidence collection in criminal proceedings at the stage of pre-trial investigation, including their relevance and admissibility. Thus, attention is paid to the assessment of courts on the legality of the presence of persons during investigative (investigative) or procedural actions; the correctness of fixing such a presence. In addition, the situations of appointment of relevant subjects in criminal proceedings to fulfill their powers are considered. It is proposed to supplement the first part of Article 236 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine with a provision that clarifies the grounds for the stay and authority of the employee of the operational and investigative service during the search.

scholarly journals The Role of the Prosecutor in Executing the Payment of Replacement Money

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 521
Author(s):  
I Gede Artha ◽  
Ni Nengah Adiyaryani
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
Criminal Charge ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
Financial Losses

This research is about the role of the Prosecutor as an executor in executing the assets of the convicts of corruption, to recover the State financial losses from corruption. Besides that, this research aims to know about the returning of State financial losses through the payment of replacement money. Corruption is an extraordinary crime, veiled and endanger national stability and security and inhibiting Indonesian economic development. This research is a normative legal research with primary, secondary and tertiary legal material supported by data. This research is using statutory, case, and comparative approaches. The legal basis used in this research are Law No. 31 of 1999 in conjunction with Law No. 20 of 2001, Law No. 16 of 2004 and Law No. 8 of 1981 (Indonesian Criminal Procedural Code). The corruption has become systematic and the scope enters into all aspect of life, start with the lower level with State Officers and law enforcers becomes the dominant actors. In imposing the sanction, The Judges are not only charge imprisonment but also charge additional fines and/or penalties to returning the State financial losses and ask the convicts of corruption to pay the replacement money to the State. The problem arises in this research related to the execution of the verdict about returning State financial losses which are the assets of the convicted person is already in the third party hands or have been depleted, dual population administration, the length of the judicial process, the convicted person prefers to take the subsidiary criminal charge and the hollow of norm regarding technical execution for the Prosecutors so that the execution cannot be carried out.

scholarly journals Problematic Issues of Protection of Rights and Legitimate Interests of Victims of Crime

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
M. A. Zheludkov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Status ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
The Right

The relevance of the article is that in modern society, ensuring a full fight against crime involves including a solution to various problems in the implementation of the rights and legitimate interests of persons against whom the crime has been committed. For example, in the criminal procedure the rights and obligations of “persons involved in the proceedings when checking reports of a crime are explained under the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation. Alongside it provides the possibility of exercising these rights to the extent that the procedural actions and procedural decisions affect their interests, including the right not to testify against themselves, their spouses and other close relatives, the range of whom is defined in para. 4 of art. 5 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation. Such persons are provided with the right to use the services of a lawyer, as well as to bring complaints about actions (inaction) and decisions of the investigating officer, the head of division of inquiry, the chief of body of inquiry, the investigator, the head of investigative body in the order established by Chapter 16 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation”. Still this sound rule lacks referencing to certain subjects defined in the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation. This leads to the fact that legal guarantees for persons who have not received the status of a participant in criminal proceedings remain declarative. The analysis of criminal cases revealed many inaccuracies, legislative gaps and contradictions, which play an important role in the fact that individuals or legal entities in respect of whom the crime has been committed do not have procedural rights to protect their interests within the period up to 30 days. The article aims to develop a mechanism for their protection from the moment of registration of a crime report by law enforcement agencies, taking into account a certain amount of knowledge on the activities of persons who were involved in the criminal process.

scholarly journals Arrest of Property in Bankruptcy Cases

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Biryukov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Bankruptcy Law ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Legal Remedy ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
The Right ◽  
Court Practice

This article focuses on the analysis of certain aspects of the application of security measures in liquidation procedure governed by Bankruptcy Law. Arrest of property (according to Ukrainian legislation terminology — a seizure of property) as a temporary tool of enforcing future court decisions is a fairly popular legal tool to protect the parties’ property interests in money disputes. In modern court practice application of this legal remedy creates some difficulties, particularly, in bankruptcy cases. When administering these cases, the judges sometimes consider petitions regarding imposing arrests of property or freeing restrictions over the property imposed in civil, administrative and criminal cases. In such situations, there is a need to answer a question whether the commercial court in a bankruptcy case has a power to free arrests or other restrictions on using the property imposed by other courts. Current legislation i.e. both procedural law and bankruptcy law does not contain clear rules on how the judges should aсt in such situations. Different approaches to the application of bankruptcy proceedings regarding arrest of property influence the court practice in general. Some economic courts establish that the release of the debtor’s assets from bans and arrests during the bankruptcy proceeding is totally in accordance with the current law, other courts rule that commercial procedural code does not allow to free property from arrest imposed, for example, in civil cases as this arrest is done by civil procedural law. Arrests attached in the criminal proceedings have different nature and purpose. It is known that in most cases in the criminal law property arrest serves as means to ensure possible future confiscation of property that may have been obtained in an illegal way. During such court proceedings a special review is conducted in order to discover whether property in acquired legally. Therefore, in order to cancel arrest of the property the procedure should be exercised in accordance with the rules of the criminal proceedings. However, while imposing new arrests of property in criminal proceedings it should be taken into account that the legal status of a person who was declared bankrupt has changed, i.e. he is deprived of the right to dispose the property which becomes a subject for sale at public tenders. The main conclusion of this article is that existence of certain different approaches to application of security measures in different court proceedings can be explained by the fact that during the development of procedural laws the nature of insolvency relations and the peculiarities of the legal mechanisms used in bankruptcy cases were not fully taken into account.

scholarly journals Letter of Rights for Persons Arrested on the Basis of a European Arrest Warrant: A Novelty Under the Directive 2012/13/Eu

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libor Klimek
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Arrest Warrant ◽  
Framework Decision ◽  
Fundamental Knowledge ◽  
European Arrest Warrant ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The paper deals with a Letter of rights for persons arrested on the basis of a European arrest warrant, a novelty introduced by the Directive 2012/13/ EU on the right to information in criminal proceedings. The Directive stipulates that Member States of the EU shall ensure that persons who are arrested for the purpose of the execution of an European arrest warrant are provided promptly with appropriate Letter of rights containing information on their rights according to the law implementing the Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA on the European arrest warrant in the executing Member State. The paper is divided into three sections. First section presents fundamental knowledge on starting points of the letter of rights. Further, second section analyses its legal basis, i.e. Directive 2012/13/EU. The last third section introduces an indicative model of letter of rights.

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