{"title":"METHODS OF SOLUTION BY THE COURT OF THE SITUATION “STATEMENT OF THE ACCUSED ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF PROHIBITED METHODS OF INVESTIGATION”","authors":"Yuriy Myroshnychenko","doi":"10.15421/012186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15421/012186","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed article considers options for the court to resolve situations related to the defendants’ statements about the use of unauthorized methods of pretrial investigation, which significantly complicates the proceedings. The facts of torture in the Ukrainian police are stated, which have been repeatedly pointed out by the European Court of Human Rights, emphasizing the systemic nature of the problems, which is based on this shameful phenomenon. At the same time, it is noted that the defense often uses tactics to file such statements without sufficient grounds, aiming in some cases to undermine the credibility of the results of pretrial investigation, in others – to prolong the proceedings as much as possible, thus putting pressure on the court proceedings. In view of this, there are improvements in the procedural mechanisms that make it impossible to use the information obtained in this way, and on the other hand to develop algorithms for the court to verify such statements in order to properly assess the evidence provided by the prosecution and at the same time prevent are determined by the actual task of the sciences of the criminal cycle. As a result of the study, the author concludes that in each case the court must assess the validity of the defense’s statement on the application of prohibited methods of investigation to the accused to decide whether it is unfounded and only in the case of a positive answer to the competent authorities to conduct a formal investigation and expect its results if the court’s decision on the admissibility of key evidence in the case depends on them. In this case, the court will avoid unjustified delay in the case, otherwise its duration will depend on the efficiency of the investigation of the unfounded statement of the defendant. However, the presence of a decision of the pretrial investigation body to close the proceedings on the application of the suspect (accused) of his torture by law enforcement is not decisive for the court and does not release him from the obligation to check the information available to him and give his conclusions final decision on the case.","PeriodicalId":228288,"journal":{"name":"Actual problems of native jurisprudence","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122257186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON THE REDUCTION OF LEGAL EXPENSES FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE\u0000IN ECONOMIC PROCEEDINGS","authors":"D. Riabov","doi":"10.15421/392176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15421/392176","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author highlights the problems of improper application by national courts of the European Court of Human Rights practices. The author notes that the current Code of Commercial Procedure of Ukraine does not provide for an independent reduction by the court of expenses for professional legal assistance, unless the other party has filed a corresponding petition and proved their incommensurability, which fully reflects consolidation of the adversarial principle of parties in economic proceedings. At the same time, having reviewed the judicial practice of the Supreme Court, there is a discrepancy in judicial practice regarding the reimbursement to the party in favor of which the court has founded of the legal expenses for professional legal assistance. In certain court decisions, there is incorrect implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judicial practices to reduce the reimbursement to the party in favor of which the court has founded of the legal expenses for professional legal assistance. For the most part, this is the case of “East / West Alliance Limited vs. Ukraine”. Considering the above, the author conducted a study of the sources of law that regulate the procedure for legal proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights. Based on the results of this study, the author found that the European Court of Human Rights is entitled to reduce the amount of legal expenses, including those for legal assistance, to be reimbursed to the party in favor of which the court has founded, if the court considers this amount unfair. However, the provisions of the Code of Commercial Procedure of Ukraine, the Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine and the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine do not mention that the courts are empowered to independently reduce the amount of legal expenses for professional legal assistance to the party in favor of which the court has founded. The author notes that this practice leads to violation of the following principles of economic legal proceedings: the rule of law, adversarial principle of the parties and reimbursement to the party in favor of which the court has founded of the legal expenses. Moreover, the author notes that in this case, Part 2 of Article 19 of the Law of Ukraine “On International Treaties” cannot be applied, since the right of the European Court of Human Rights to reduce the amount of reimbursement for legal expenses is established not by an international treaty, but by sources of “soft law” that regulate the procedure for legal proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights and, accordingly, is not a Ukrainian source of law.","PeriodicalId":228288,"journal":{"name":"Actual problems of native jurisprudence","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134139460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}