Video conferencing technology and its application in criminal proceedings
https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-2-67-76
Abstract
The article examines the historical background of the emergence and modern understanding of the essence of video conferencing used in domestic criminal proceedings. The lack of unity of approaches to the naming of this technology is emphasized when spelling rules are not taken into account. The separation of video conferencing from web conference technology is carried out and the conclusion is made about its dual legal nature in criminal proceedings: as a method of carrying out procedural actions and as a system of technical means. On the basis of the existing provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation on the use of video conferencing and emerging judicial practice, the need to consolidate the concept and procedure for its application in criminal proceedings, including its pre-trial stages, is justified, since the general rule on the rules for the use of technical means in the production of investigative actions is insufficient.
The purpose of this study is to substantiate the need to consolidate the concept and procedure for the use of video conferencing in criminal proceedings in the law. Research objectives: conducting a comprehensive study of the historical prerequisites for the emergence and essence of video conferencing; formulating a proposal for the application of a unified approach to the naming of this technology; determining the promising direction of the use of video conferencing ‒ in the pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings.
The conducted research is based on traditional general scientific and private legal methods of cognition, including dialectics, analysis, synthesis, generalization, logical, system-structural, comparative legal, formal legal, etc.
The results of the study were a set of new provisions that expand scientific ideas about video conferencing technology and the features of its application in the field of criminal proceedings, including its pre-trial stages.
The opinion on the dual legal nature of video conferencing in criminal proceedings is put forward and substantiated: as a method of carrying out procedural actions and as a system of technical means, as well as its separation from the technology of a web conference.
About the Authors
V. A. Sementsov
FGBOU VO "Kuban State University"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir A. Sementsov, Dr. of Sci. (Law), Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure
Stavropol str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040
Tel.: +7 (861) 268-59-64
V. V. Glimeida
FGBOU VO "Kuban State University"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vitaliy V. Glimeida, Assistant and postgraduate student of the Department of Criminal Procedure
Stavropol str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040
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Sementsov V.A., Glimeida V.V. Video conferencing technology and its application in criminal proceedings. Legal Bulletin of the Kuban State University. 2022;(2):67-76. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-2-67-76
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