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EVIDENCE AND PROOF IN ECONOMIC AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS: A COMPARATIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS

Pages: 142-156
Year: 2021
Location: Pravova Ednist Ltd

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Abstract. The article is devoted to the problems of comparative legal analysis of evidence and proof in criminal and business processes. The purpose of the study is to conduct a comparative legal analysis of evidence and the process of proof in economic and criminal proceedings. Find possible options for implementing the norms of the criminal process to the economic process and vice versa, in order to improve the process of proof as such. The problem of evidence and proof was and remains relevant, despite hundreds of studies on this topic. However, the existence of different approaches at the doctrinal level has a negative effect on the law enforcement activities of the subjects of the legal process. After the research, the following conclusions were made. First, the comparative legal method of analysis for improving legislative mechanisms is extremely effective. Secondly, when comparing the general characteristics of evidence in criminal and economic proceedings, many commonalities were found. Thirdly, attention was paid and it was proposed to implement some provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine to the Economic Procedure Code of Ukraine, taking into account its features, namely: circumstances to be proven in the context of the subject of proof, a complex concept of proof. Fourthly, on the basis of a comparative analysis of codified legislation, the shortcomings of the Criminal Procedure Code were identified, namely: the classification of electronic evidence as documents, rather than its isolation as an independent source, as is the case in the other three procedural codes, the absence of a concept of subject fixed at the legislative level proving. The author describes his own vision of the concept of evidence as specific factual data that contain information about facts that are directly related to the dispute, confirm or deny a certain circumstance, contribute to the correct resolution of the case, obtained legally, from legal sources, fixed in a certain procedural law provided by law in the form of means of proof (sources of evidence – KPK) and examined in court in a proper manner. Key words: evidence, proof, subject of proof, means of proof, sources of evidence, economic process, criminal process.   REFERENCES LEGAL DOCUMENTS LEGISLATION
  1. Hospodarskyi protsesualnyi kodeks Ukrainy [Economic Procedure Code of Ukraine] vid 06.11.1991 № 1799-XII data zvernennia 16.09.2021[in Ukrainian].
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CASE
  1. Postanova Verkhovnoho Sudu u skladi kolehii suddiv Kasatsiinoho hospodarskoho sudu vid 05.02.2019 u spravi № 914/1131/18 [Resolution of the Supreme Court as part of the panel of judges of the Cassation Economic Court dated 05.02.2019 in case No. 914/1131/18] data zvernennia 16.09.2021 [in Ukrainian].
BIBLIOGRAPHY AUTHORED BOOKS
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EDITED BOOKS
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ARTICLES
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DISSERTATION
  1. Stepanova T V, Dokazuvannia ta dokazy v hospodarskomu protsesi Ukrainy [Evidence and Evidence in the Economic Process of Ukraine] (dys. kand. yuryd. nauk: 12.00.04. Odeskyi natsionalnyi un-t im. I.I. Mechnykova, 2002) 191 [in Ukrainian].

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