Familiarization with the materials of the criminal case at the end of pre-trial proceedings: content and form

Information is an important tool in determining the capabilities of a person in any field of his activity. The receipt of information, as well as its processing, occurs constantly. Access to information in criminal proceedings can be viewed from a very broad perspective: from the powers of the investigator to obtain information in the course of procedural activities, to jurors receiving information from the parties during the trial.

A separate form has access to and receipt of information by participants in criminal proceedings who are directly or indirectly interested in its outcome. The rules of this procedure do not always meet their needs and in some cases become an obstacle in the exercise of procedural rights and in the protection of legitimate interests. Attention is drawn to the scale of erroneous law enforcement, which leads to violations of the rights of interested persons. No less important is the fact that in some cases, citizens also try to abuse their procedural capabilities, creating obstacles in the legitimate activities of criminal prosecution bodies. Most often, such problems arise at the stage of familiarization with the materials of a criminal case at the end of the preliminary investigation, although some difficulties are associated with familiarization in its process.

It seems that the unsatisfactory situation in the field of knowledge in criminal proceedings is a consequence of unresolved problems, both fundamental (including conceptual) and applied (procedural) nature.

Taken together, these circumstances determined the relevance, theoretical and practical significance of this study.

The purpose of this study is to form the author's position on the concept of familiarization with the materials of a criminal case, the definition of its essential features. Research objectives: theoretical analysis of the grounds for familiarization with the materials of a criminal case in criminal proceedings; identification of essential signs of familiarization; empirical study of the problems of familiarization with the materials of a criminal case at the end of the preliminary investigation; formation of types of awareness; the proposal of the author's vision of the essence of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case and ways to solve individual problems of familiarization with the materials of the completed criminal case. Research methods: dialectical, systemic, formal-legal, logical, analytical, synthetic, generalization, hypothetical. Results: the main result of the undertaken research was the author's definition of the concept of familiarization with the materials of a criminal case based on the addition of a list of its essential features and its form.

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