The concept of appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61345/1339-7915.2024.3.1Keywords:
actions or inaction, pre-trial proceedings, appeal, rights and freedoms, procedural decisions, investigation, the investigating judgeAbstract
The aim of the work is to define the concept of appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings.
The methodological basis of the study is a combination of general scientific and special methods of cognition. In particular, to define the concept of appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings, the author uses the method of legal comparative’s (comparison of approaches to understanding appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings), hermeneutics (interpretation of the legal provisions regulating the mechanism of appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings) and the systemic and structural method (consideration of appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings as a complex legal phenomenon).
Results. The article is devoted to the study of certain issues that arise when interpreting the concept of appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings, taking into account the norms of criminal procedural legislation and the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. It is emphasized that the institution of appeal is of leading importance precisely during the pre-trial investigation, since within this stage the use of procedural coercion measures prevails, limiting the constitutional rights and freedoms of a person. It has been established that the prosecutor’s review of the legality and reasonableness of the decisions, actions and inactions of the inquirer, the investigator is a “quasi-appeal”, because the prosecutor as the main subject of the prosecution cannot remain independent and impartial.
Conclusions. An appeal in pre-trial criminal proceedings is a procedure of judicial review of the legality and validity of decisions, actions and inactions of the prosecution and decisions of investigating judges initiated by interested participants in pre-trial criminal proceedings or other interested persons in order to ensure procedural rights, protection of material rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of a person in criminal proceedings, stipulated by the provisions of the criminal procedural legislation and/or the content of the principles of criminal justice.
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